The Industrial Teagues and the Forest of Dean
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- Author(s) Anstis, Ralph
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1990
- Pages 204pp; illus
- Publisher Alan Sutton Publishing
- Place Published Gloucester
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Structured by family member and embraces their activities undertaken via several different businesses in the area of the Forest of Dean / Gloucestershire. The family members are: 1] 'James Teague, 1750-1818' - 'Early days' / 'Berry Hill and Coleford' / 'The tramroad - the authorities object' / 'The tramroad - legal battles' / 'Whitecliffe Ironworks' / 'Last years'; 2] 'Thomas Teague, 1757-1812' - 'Cinderford Furnace' / 'Wales'; 3] 'George Teague, 1753-1819' [brother of James]; 4] 'Moses Teague, 1792-1840' [son of James] - 'Early days and bankruptcy' / 'Parkend Ironworks' / 'Cinderford Ironworks' / 'The Ross Steam Railway' / 'Purton Pill Steam Carriage Road' / 'The inventor' / 'Coalmaster, ironmaster and entrepreneur' / 'Moses' death'; 5] 'Peter Teague, 1786-1872' [son of James]; 6] 'James Teague, the poet, 1784-1844' [son of James]. David Mushet and Thomas Halford figure prominently. Has family tree descending from Edward, 1677-1751, and Eleanor, 1676-1747, Teague