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- Thomas WILLIAMSON was the subject of a Removal Order in 1746 to the parish of Old Swinford, Staffordshire - specifically to Amblecote, a glassmaking centre.
However, parish and Poor Law records (transcripts held in Birmingham) show no record of any WILLIAMSONs at Old Swinford at any time in the 17th or 18th centuries, other than the family of William in the first decade of the 18th century. The neighbouring parish of Kingswinford has just one WILLIAMSON in the PRs, Michael, who married Mary WAGSTAFF there in 1747 and died in 1759.
- Robert.11. Son of John Brotherton decease. App to James Williamson of Atherton as a Glassmaker for 8 yrs Tr/Pe/C/6/1/221 Sept 1749 [Wigan Archives Service]
- "Glassmakers of Stourbridge and Dudley 1612 - 2002: A Biographical History of a Once Great Industry" is a book by Mr Jason Ellis which has recently been published. It is a genealogical history of the glassmakers of the Stourbridge district, tracing the ownership of the various glassmaking sites from the 17th century to the present day. [www.dudley.gov.uk 2010]
- Mary NEALE said that her mother, Florence GALE, claimed Huguenot ancestry. This might be through the glassmakers of Amblecote. See Grazebrook, H. Sydney, "Collections for a genealogy of the noble families of Henzey, Tyttery, and Tyzack (De Hennezel, De Thiétry, and Du Thisac) : 'gentilshommes verriers' from Lorraine : with a narrative pedigree of the Stourbridge branch of the first-named family and its descendants, including the several families of Brettell, Bate, Dixon, Hill, Jeston, Jervis, Pidcock and others."
- In "Glassmakers of Stourbridge and Dudley 1612-2002" by Jason Ellis, there is a reference in Chapter 8 (which covers Colemans Glasshouse, Lye) to a Chelwood Glasshouse in Somerset set up by Paul Tyzack and two partners after a fire destroyed the Colemans company in 1658. [www.glassmessages.com]
Regarding glassmaking at Stourbridge:
In 1658 the original Colemans building, probably made of wood, burned down. The partners who had been working there were Paul [Tyzack], Zacharias [Tyzack] his nephew, and Abraham Bigo. For a while, after the fire, they worked at Chelwood Somerset, for a man called Robert Foley but by March 1661 they were all back at Coleman's, Paul the younger having taken out a fresh lease and rebuilt the works. [tyzack.net]
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