Hello Teesside, do you have any members interested in the influx of skilled iron workers from Wales in mid 18th century? I hope you can assist.
Alan Teulon of Northants I A Group.
ateulon@waitrose.com
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Hi Alan
re Welsh Iron Steel Workers, I belive there were a certain amount of Welsh (and Staffs/Shrop/Black Country) Iron workers in Consett in 1851.
The 1861 census shows some Welsh and Staff puddlers in Witton Park, near Bishop Auckland in S Durham (returns for this town in '61 have quite a lot of detailed job titles- 'shingler' 'iron ball furnace labourer'etc. The 1871 census returns for Witton Park shows Samuel Roberts foreman roll turner in the iron works, late of Trevethin,Monmouthshire.
In 1871 a/the blast furnace foreman at Port Clarence was a John Welsh, an Irishman with children born in Glamorgan, Monmouthshire (and Middlesex).
Let me know if you'd like me to search ancestry.com for Welsh born people in northern iron towns
Michael Burns
aardvarkgs@btinternet.com
Hi Alan
I'm doing some detailed census work (for the period from 1871 to 1901) on migration into a south iron durham colony in the 1860s onwards and so have some information that I can give you, depending upon what you want. In the meantime, can I direct you towards the work of Minoru Yasumoto, who is currentlty doing a wide scale study of migration into Middlesbrough during this period. Problem is, his study will not be available for some time. He did do a pilot study of Linthorpe to test his methodologies - I have a hard copy I would be glad to post to you if you contact me.
Also have a look at - http://www.esh.ed.ac.uk/urban_history/text/YasumotoM4.doc.
I will register on the site as a blogger and will be able to give you more details later. I've also got some stats from earlier studies carried out by Leonard and Menzies et al, which were very interesting. I will be able to forward these figures to you electronically if you want.
The traditional story is that a lot of the skilled workers were recruited through personal links (that is, a manager at one of the main iron works) and social networks and were drawn from Wales. Less skilled workers were drawn from Ireland. The mix was extremely volatile and Middlesbrough had a frontier feel for a large part of the 19th Century. Have a look at an interesting article on policing the town at http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_social_history/v037/37.3taylor.html
Hope this is helpful.
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