In message <[log in to unmask]>, John
Morris <[log in to unmask]> writes
>Ask, and you shall receive!
>
>I am most grateful to all of you who replied to my query about the
>Nant-y-Car Mine, in particular for the very detailed responses from Dave
>Williams, who replied "on-list", as well as Mark Walters of the Clwyd-Powys
>Archaeological Trust, who replied "off-list". The replies have certainly
>added immensely to my knowledge of Nant-y-Car.
I would have been interested to see Mark Walter's reply, having spent an
hour researching Nant-y-Car. Off-list replies don't spread the
information.
>
>A number of Bradford merchants figure prominently in the establishment of
>the Tassan Mine, as documented in the archival records of the Companies
>Registration Office held in the Public Records Office, Kew (folios BT
>41/675/3686 and BT 31/249/821), amongst them Benjamin Briggs and John
>Benjamin Popplewell, both Wine Merchants, George Greenwood Tetley, a "stuff"
>merchant (I believe this relates to Worsted cloth), James Knowles, Cloth
>Merchant, and more prosaically, Plumber and Glazier, James Keighley. Several
>of these individuals also feature in various combinations as signatory
>Directors on extant share certificates I have in my collection. The folios
>provide detailed information about shareholdings, and the winding up of the
>Company, at which time Tetley is recorded as Chairman. But who exactly were
>these people, and how might they and their accomplishments now be rescued
>from the shadows of history?
Unfortunately neither Briggs, Knowles or Keighley throw up anything in
my index system.
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