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Nicola
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Iron Founder 1800`s Tweedmouth
« on: Saturday 05 April 08 15:58 BST (UK) »
Joseph Wilson c 1800 Berwick was an Iron Founder. Also Alexander Robertson b 1805, Berwick was an Iron Founder, employing 110 men and boys. I have the names Wilson, Robertson, Hastie and Tower in my tree and quite often the names appear as a mixture for an Individual; ie  John Alexander Tower Robertson ,or Robert  Tower Robertson Wilson . I have been researching this for a while and have not come up with a connection.
If anyone is researching any of these people i would be glad to hear from them.
How can i find out where the Iron Foundries were?

Please help
Regards, Nicola
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Northam, Billing(s), Trickey, Sprague, Woodbury, Hallett, Pike, Stamp, Hart All Devon Somerset area.
Hastie, Tait, Clark, Bryson, Edminson, Burgon,  Dickson, Adamson, Hendry, JeffreyAll Berwick area.
Archer, Purdy, Pitts, Grooms, Lomax, Smith, Poulton, Luddington, Daniels, Atkinson all Tottenham area
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Re: Iron Founder 1800`s Tweedmouth
« Reply #1 on: Friday 02 May 08 17:36 BST (UK) »
Hi Nicola,
This is an interesting online book about Berwick in 1806 and places of ten miles radius. Look up p153 [there is a quick page finder] which has a sentence about the iron foundry. Find it at www.rgcairns.orpheusweb.co.uk/Berwick.
On old maps.co.uk you will find an 1862 map of Tweedmouth which shows a Tower Foundry. After looking at your post I see that someone you were looking for is Robert Tower Robertson Wilson so that is probably the building.
keystothepast mentions 2 foundries.
british-history.ac.uk says that there were 3.
Hope this helps.
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