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One Name Studies: H to M / Re: McCHLERY (& variants), UK & Ireland, All dates
« on: Monday 07 November 11 19:46 GMT (UK)  »
Whilst researching the Cavan family of merchants/bankers, I have found the following information on Michael McChlery, James Cavan's nephew.

He was chairman of the Demerara Railway Company (the first in S. America) in the late 1840s and a director of the Llynvi iron Company in south Wales 1847-1852. James Cavan was a major investor in the iron co. and MM seems to have been Cavan's representative on the Llynvi Board of Directors. MM also seems to have been an agent for the Colonial Bank in the West Indies 1838-52.

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Gloucestershire / Re: Cantle family - Bitton
« on: Thursday 22 July 10 13:23 BST (UK)  »
Some notes on the Cantles, Maesteg.

The Cantle family came to the Llynfi Valley after J.H. Allen opened a spelter (zinc) works in the valley in 1831. Bristol was an established centre of zinc production and, during the 1830s, the Cantles were among about twenty Bristolians with experience of spelter-making  recruited by Allen for his new works. He built Toncwd Row for the workers, and in 1841 the majority of the residents of the Row were Bristolian spelter works. The 1841 Census lists the Row wrongly as Tonnewydd Row, it was really Toncwd Row. Later the Row was renamed McGarel Row for a few years before reverting to Toncwd Row. The Row was demolished about 1970.
By 1851 a number of the Bristol workers had left the valley for spelter works in Skewen and Swansea; the Cantles remained in the district.

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