Cinderford - background (General)

by Brenda L. Smith, Tuesday, June 12, 2007, 11:59 (6376 days ago) @ slowhands

Thank you for this background information.
The geography is helpful, and I will look further into the Abbotswood reference.
Your mention of Edwin in the 1871 census is intriguing as Edwin Owen was a child of 8 living in his birthplace of chetwynd, Newport then. Perhpas this is an uncle.
I speculate that Edwin Owen was at Cinderford on business, and the corn mill information is helpful. I doubt an iron manufacture connection, although another, apparently unrelated Nock family lived round Rowley Regis and did fine metal production.
Does anyone have information on local newspapers that might have reported his death?

Brenda