Further to earlier messages, if not exactly relevant
to your immediate interest:
Clearly, Nash's source material in many cases would
have been the material found at the Hoover
Presidential Library (we never seem to have a British
equivalent!); for a summary of their holding keyword
'Bewick Moreing' here:
http://www.ecommcode2.com/hoover/research/search.html
Similarly, the Hoover Institution, for some company
material from 1908-10:
http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/
For material closer to home, and more accessible, it's
worth reading some of the articles found in Economic
History Review (EHR), an interesting contextualisation
of the prominence of Bewick Moreing & Co., amongst
others, is to be found in:
HARVEY, C., and PRESS, J., Overseas Investment and the
Professional Advance of British Metal Mining
Engineers, 1851-1914, E.H.R. Vol.42, No.1 (February
1989), pp.64-86.
This features references to secondary sources on
individuals such as MOREING, to be found in THe
Dictionary of Business Biography (1984-6).
An Australia-centred article is:
HARTLEY, R., Bewick Moreing on Western Australian Gold
Mining, 1897-1904: Management policies and Goldfields
responses - LABOUR HISTORY Vol.65 (1993) 1-18 (ISSN
[0023-6942]);
For Nun's Cross itself, the only direct document seems
to be an 1872 lease in LOPES family archive, held at
the Plymouth and West Devon Record Office [874/48/63],
which I assume you have already found.
For other Bewick references, the Northumberland Record
Office definitely seems like the place to be -
see:
www.a2a.org.uk/
and for a quick and dirty approach, keyword search for
Bewick, narrowing the search to N.R.O.
For some company milestones/reorganisations in the
partnership I once again refer people to the London
Gazette, with its just-searchable archive of material:
http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/
Chris Jones
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In researching Nun's Cross Mine on Dartmoor, I am
trying to locate any original material relating to TJ
Bewick. Some original stuff is referred to
in the recent book on Langley Barony Mine, but the
location is not given (Perhaps Northumberland Record
Office?). Bewick was one of the lessees along with two
local mine agents in the early 1870's, but this
working apparently came to nothing. Any information
would be welcome.
...
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