Family of Thomas Cornelius HARDING b1834 (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Saturday, February 28, 2015, 00:28 (3557 days ago) @ Mike Pinchin

Hi Mike and Pollycat,
thanks Mike for starting on this one, I had a quick look but my mind's not as sharp as yours and I'm afraid I soon got scared off ;-)

Anyhow, if it helps, see here for a very helpful discussion about "Garnderris"; apparently a "lost" village now it's small ironworks has long-gone. Seems likely given it's relative remoteness and small size that John George was working at this ironworks c1835 when his daughter Mary was born there, which is the same time moreorless when Elizabeth George was also born there...
It's only a few miles northeast of Blaenavon, enroute to Abergavenny. Tredegar is a little farther in the opposite direction, near the far bigger iron works at Ebbw Vale.
Polycat, it may be worth your also asking the good people of the Tredegar forum ?

See http://www.tredegar.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3324
http://history.govilon.com/trail/garnddyrys/
Also http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/MON/Trevethan/

It seems that the Garnderris iron (or "forge") works was very important in it's day, in the early 1800s, but those days were short-lived and had ended abruptly by abt 1860.
http://www.secret-bottletop.com/Pwll-Du/History.html
http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/antique-machinery-history/blaenavon-ironworks-114547/