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catsam
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10 years ago

i am researching a family tree based at Westgate in Weardale
And I wonder of anyone knows anything about the Bolton family originally From Appleby who were Lead Smelters for the London Lead Co first at Middleton in Teesdale, then Stanhope and then at Nenthead.

Les

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ebgb
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10 years ago

do you have any dates? will give you a head start…

if they were in and around any of the WBM operations when the beaumonts held the leases, their names will be in the Bargain books…

there's hundreds of bargain books though, so having a dat will help hugely

North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers in Newcastle, and The Northumberland records office hold most of the books

London Lead Company Bargain books will be similarly useful. Durham Records office would be another useful source

http://bf494.co.uk

catsam
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The people I am looking for are William Bolton - Lead Smelter at Dufton.
His son Anthony Bolton - Manager of Lead Works at Nenthead for 30 years between 1881 to 1901 and later mine Manager.
Another son Thomas Dobson Bolton - Manager & Shareholder of Lead & Manure Works at Stanhope for 30 years (1861 - 1891)
Thomas Dobson Bolton son Edward William Bolton who was Manager of a Copper Smelt Works at Llangyfelach, Swansea in 1881 then moving to Lanaris in Spain and finally dying in Australia in 1916.
All of the above were working for the London Lead Co.
I dont think any records will appear in the Bargin books as these are usually about mining contract.

Any help please

Graigfawr
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10 years ago

Cambrian (and other newspapers of Swansea) online index provides one relevant hit:

09 December 1881 AUCTION SALE OF HOUSEHOLD & OFFICE FURNITURE BELONGING TO E.W. BOLTON OF MORRISTON. P1

This suggests that he was leaving the district at this time.

Ty Gwyn
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10 years ago

Was there really Copper Smelting taking place in Llangyfelach?

The coal was there,but that rail track from the Collieries was the only link of transport other than horse and cart.

Jimbo
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10 years ago

"Ty Gwyn" wrote:
Was there really Copper Smelting taking place in Llangyfelach?

The coal was there,but that rail track from the Collieries was the only link of transport other than horse and cart.

Apparently so! ;D
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/welsh-history-month-lower-swansea-2032065

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Graigfawr
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10 years ago

"Ty Gwyn" wrote:
Was there really Copper Smelting taking place in Llangyfelach?

The coal was there,but that rail track from the Collieries was the only link of transport other than horse and cart.

Llangyfelach church is distant from the smelting works on the river Tawe, but the parish is a large one that takes in Morriston, adjacent to which were a number of smelting works: many coppermen lived in Morriston.

In the 1881 Census, Edward W.Bolton, described as 'manager copper smelting works', age 26, born Eggleston, Co.Durham, lived at 5 Martin Street, Morriston. This was within easy walking distance of a number of copper smelting works, some of which were located just within Llangyfelach parish, and others of which were located beyond the southern boundary of Llangyfelach parish.

Here is a map of the parish boundaries:http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/Llangyfelach/ParishMap.html Morrison is in Clase Hamlet (no.6 on this map). The copper works lined the banks of the river Tawe from Morriston southwards.

Ty Gwyn
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10 years ago

Good link Jimbo,
I was well aware of the industrialisation of the Swansea Valley,and the number of Copper Works in the lower part,it was the mention of Llangyfelach that threw me,as i`d never heard of Copper smelters there,never realized the parish was so large,a mistake i made before when i never realized a Neath parish actually came over the mountain down to the river Tawe where the Llwyn Du Colliery was situated near Glais.

Like Jimbo`s article states,the omission of the industry in the Swansea Valley,Coal was mined here while sheep still roamed the Rhondda Valley`s,lol,

Its history is vast,but needs a new large thread to accomodate.