East Dean 1851 Census - Cinderford, Coopers Tump ? (General)

by Daffodil , Gloucestershire, Saturday, April 05, 2014, 17:11 (3886 days ago) @ Jefff

Jeff
I must thank you again for all the information you have posted to this thread. It has helped me enormously, and I will of course post any new findings, and hope that others will find it interesting and useful too.

Connections with Today
My husband is a keen railway modeller and I'm an enthusiastic Family Historian, as the saying goes, "ne'er the twain shall meet"; that is until now!!

We own a copy of 'The Forest of Dean Branch' Vol. 1, signed by Ian Pope. Having browsed through it again, I've found much that is connected to my original post - so some information about the area, appears to be right here on my own bookshelf!

Incidentally, our cottage was once owned by Henry Crawshay and we're fairly sure he purchased it from a Cooper (not sure which one though). We will have to get our deeds (which date back to c1740) out of store sometime to check. The cottage is clearly visible on various plates in the aforementioned book, pages 139, 161, 175. The plate on p160 is of the Eastern United pit-head baths, which opened on 17th February 1951 and was demolished in early May about 4 years ago. I took photographs from my garden at the time of demolition and will post one to the site.

Perhaps I should start a new thread for all this information, but for now I think I have more than enough to be getting on with.

Once again many thanks for all your help.