Pewtner and Partridge (General)

by joss, Wednesday, April 11, 2007, 17:28 (6437 days ago) @ joss

Me again

Inspired by your efforts I've been checking censuses and googling and have found the following -

Info from British History Online - ... forges at Lydbrook were ...operated .. from 1763 Richard Reynolds of Bristol and John Partridge (d. 1791) of Ross-on-Wye (Herefs.) The partnership was presumably the Bristol company which shortly before 1769 built a forge near Lydbrook ... Partridge's son John worked Upper, Middle, and Lower forges in the late 1780s, when his partners included James Harford of Bristol.

Also found in article The Follies of Gloucestershire - At Ruardean the Bishop's Wood valley is bisected by the Hereford / Gloucestershire border. ... the house here was built for John Partridge by Sir Jeffry Wyattville in 1820, in the Gothick style, and burnt down in 1873. The most tangible relic is, amazingly, a splendidly preserved folly tower...

And ref on Historic Hertfordshire to New Weir Ironworks, Symonds Yat, Whitchurch ...Geo White died 1720, son took lease till 1753, lease for 14 yrs to John Partridge 'wear, lock, forge, fishing, dwelling house, slitting mill, storehouses at 270 pa' & inventory.

Also various refs to Harford and Partridge being involved in the emergent iron industry in South Wales eg at Nantyglo. In fact I suspect from the existence of a Bailey Partridge that the Partridges married into the notorious Bailey family of iron masters.

Now onto the censuses -

Yes in 1841 living next door to Esaias John Partridg (sic) abt 1795 Ruardean Gloucestershire Ind. with wife Eliza and numerous servants.

Given the servants I thought the carpenter was a bit improbable and found

1851 John Partridge Spouse: Eliza
Birth: abt 1795 - Goodrich, Herefordshire, England
Residence: 1851 - Ruardean, Gloucestershire, England
Bishopwood Now Deputy Lieutenant and JP, plus servants

1861 John Partridge Spouse: Eliza
Birth: abt 1795 - Goodridge, Herefordshire, England
Residence: 1861 - Ruardean, Gloucestershire, England
Bishopwood Mansion, now a Magistrate, plus servants

1871 John Partridge Spouse: Eliza
Birth: abt 1795 - Gobdnich House, Herefordshire, England
Bishopwood Mansion, no occupation b Goodrich House Herefordshire. Plus servants. Also has 3 grandchildren, though no trace of children before - assume at boarding school

The Whitchurch and Bristol connections are interesting and hint that Esaias might have known these people before and moved to FoD to work for them. But karma takes over and within a couple of generations of hanging out with capitalists the Pewtners were laying bricks in Newport!

Joss