There was a question the other day about this but I was peering through
flu filled eyes and didn't reply. The Steel firm that moved to Newport
was Lysaght's. The company purchased land on the river bank on the
eastern side of the river and built their new works. This was in 1898. A
lot of the workers from Wolverhampton moved down to Newport and
descendants of those workers are now employed in the works which is now
called Orb Electrical Steels.
The personel - sorry - human resources department has a card index of
workers but it only goes back to the time of the first world war. gwent
FHS did look into the possibility of transcribing the index but were
reluctant to start recording information about people who are possibly
still alive - I thought it should have been done while the opportunity
was on offer but there you are.
I can try to find information but as I say the records don't go back to
the very beginning,
Ann Macey
snuffly list admin in Newport Gwent