Birmingham glass blowers

[NEILKE]

hi ard i worked at cornings glassworks in sunderland for 15 years working on glass blowing shops working up learning the skills i also had a spell in the melting department.We used different ways to form our glass than shown on the clip we made things like dairy jaws and huge 200 litre flasks for chemical industry.If you use the roots search box ive wrote other bits about glassworking,
regards neil p.s if you want anymore info about glass let me know.

[mistyblue]

Hi

Just signed on to this site noticed your posting about Bache and glass blowers, my great grandad was Henry Bache from Birmingham and he was a glass blower and his father was James Bache so I think we are related.  My grandma was a Bache.

I might be able to fill in some gaps for you on the Bache side of the family

Anne

[grogan]

Hi, I've just found the messages about Birmingham glass blowers. My g/g/grandad (Edward Tatton) and his brother were glass blowers in Birmingham in the 1850's. However in the 1861 census onwards my g/g/gr and wife had "emigrated" to Edinburgh where he continued to work as a glass blower and so did his son.
Does anyone  have information on glass workers moving from B'ham to Scotland at this time? Or info on this Tatton family?
Thanks Grogan

[NEILKE]

hi grogan ive had a look at edinburgh glassworks ive found 2 were your rellie could have worked edinburgh cystal and the bathgate glassworks the 1st as the name suggested made good cystal the 2nd made lesser household wears but bathgate did not open untill the mid 1860s so that one may be out  but making cystal is slighty different in the methods its easier to go from working with cystal to other types of glass so it would take a bit of getting used to the work.No doubt there would have been a number of other glassworks in the area so hopefully someone with local knowledge could help better
 if you need any info on the glass industry use the search box on roots theres other bits on glassmaking.
regards neil

[grogan]

Thanks Neil,
I believe they worked at some time at a glassworks in Edinburgh called John Fords. Have you heard of it? Regards Grogan

[NEILKE]

hi just searched for john fords glassworks it was called the hollyrood flint glassworks owned by john ford.i will have a bit more of a dig about when i have time.
regards neil

[stuartroxy]

My great-great grandmother married into a family of English glass bottle blowers following the death of my gggd.  I found 3 families of the same name (Gee - related?) and one other family in the same street on the 1861 census; all were from England and were glass bottle blowers.  Not directly related to me, but I am interested in the 'emigration' to Scotland of the Gee family and their glass bottle blowing.

Stuartroxy

[ardchronie]

Hello Stuartroxy

Funnily enough I have only just noticed that the marriage certificate of my great great grandparents (Matthew Plant and Louisa Bache) was signed by Emma Gee as one of the witnesses.  Is she one of yours?  This was in 1868 in Birmingham at St Philips.

It's probably not much help in your search, but I was struck by the coincidence, as I've only been going through the certificates very recently before a visit to my uncle, so if you'd asked a week earlier I probably wouldn't have noticed the name!  At least it shows the Gees (or some of them) were still in Birmingham in 1868!

Regards
Tessa

[stuartroxy]

Hi Tessa,

I'm not sure if Emma is part of my(!) Gee family; I'm not even sure if they were from Birmingham; however, it is a huge coincidence isn't it .

If I find out anything, I'll let you know.

Stuartroxy