Penny, In addition to Geoff Sandles' Gls Breweries site, there is also the digital Directories site hosted at the Leicester University. It has bnot a few directories for most counties and in many decades, too. It is located here <http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/index.asp> It will assist any family historian searching for members of the gentry and also for trades and professions. To take my own Gls interest for an example, notably because the Stroud Brewery Company bought out the Warn Brewery, when the latter went into liquidation. Some would say that breweries dealt in liquids any way! In addition to there being three or four breweries in Tetbury, there were in addition, several maltsters working, one assumes, out of their own homes. Mashing applies to beer as well as to teat! HTH Phil At 17:31 02/11/2008, penny gay wrote: >Does anyone know if a maltster living in Stroud >in the early 1800s would be most likely to have >worked at a malthouse actually sited within the >Stroud Brewery buildings, which I believe were >in Rowcroft. Although I have found plenty of >information about the process of making malt, I >haven't been able to find where there might have >been a malthouse in Stroud - the Brewery seems >the obvious place - but confirmation would be >good. Grateful for any help or suggestions. Penny G. Phil Warn ô¿ô Genealogists do it backwards Family Historians take all steps "The Warn family in Tetbury from 1722" <http://homepage.ntlworld.com/philwarn/FamHist1/index.htm>

Phil Many thanks for the reference to the Directory website. I had been wondering if any of these were available on line. There's certainly quite a bit of information about Stroud in the late 19th Century - but I have found nothing for Gloucestershire before 1850. My ancestors had left Gloucestershire by 1850 - four to America, one to Australia! However, my great great grandfather and his son were both carpenters in Bristol in the late 19th Century so I may find some trace of them. Thank you! I had also been wondering about the feasibility of making malt at home, which you mention - would this have been possible, given the right equipment? And I think I have read that some pubs had their own malt-houses. There were certainly plenty of those in Stroud. Penny. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Warn" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 1:16 PM Subject: Re: [GLS] Stroud Brewery Penny, In addition to Geoff Sandles' Gls Breweries site, there is also the digital Directories site hosted at the Leicester University. It has bnot a few directories for most counties and in many decades, too. It is located here <http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/index.asp> It will assist any family historian searching for members of the gentry and also for trades and professions. To take my own Gls interest for an example, notably because the Stroud Brewery Company bought out the Warn Brewery, when the latter went into liquidation. Some would say that breweries dealt in liquids any way! In addition to there being three or four breweries in Tetbury, there were in addition, several maltsters working, one assumes, out of their own homes. Mashing applies to beer as well as to teat! HTH Phil At 17:31 02/11/2008, penny gay wrote: >Does anyone know if a maltster living in Stroud >in the early 1800s would be most likely to have >worked at a malthouse actually sited within the >Stroud Brewery buildings, which I believe were >in Rowcroft. Although I have found plenty of >information about the process of making malt, I >haven't been able to find where there might have >been a malthouse in Stroud - the Brewery seems >the obvious place - but confirmation would be >good. Grateful for any help or suggestions. Penny G. Phil Warn ô¿ô Genealogists do it backwards Family Historians take all steps "The Warn family in Tetbury from 1722" <http://homepage.ntlworld.com/philwarn/FamHist1/index.htm> _____________________________________________ Have you considered adding "postems" to "your" events on www.freebmd.org.uk , giving your contact details? Other researchers will then be able to make contact. Click on the info button to add your postem. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message