Very interested in the message about John Weston. I enclose a note I
posted in November 1998 about a John Weston. I would like to think
they may be one and the same person.
Unfortunately I don't think I can offer any help regarding
Weston's involvement in the copper industry...
Posting Nov 12th 1998
I am interested in John Weston, who in 1576 leased a blast furnace at
Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire from Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.
The furnace used locally mined iron ore. I have been told that Weston
was associated with the Mines Royal. Can anyone confirm this, or have
they come across his name in any other context? I suspect he may have
been related to Westons involved in the Weald iron industry.
David Poyner
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