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Ralph Leonard was born before 27 January 1788 in Brierley Hill, Staffordshire, England. He and Ann Smith were married on 11 October 1826 in Kingswinford, Staffordshire, England. He died in 1829.

Ralph Leonard was baptized on 27 January 1788 in Brierley Hill, Staffordshire, England. IGI: C033921, Source Call No. 0417175.

James Leonard was born before 31 December 1786 in Brierley Hill, Staffordshire, England. He and Sarah Scriven were married on 11 October 1811 in Saint Thomas Church, Dudley, Worcestershire, England. He died He died of whooping cough. on 16 July 1864 in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

Or did he die in Old Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland, in 1864. Mother named Prudence Hawker? Was he baptized 30 Mar 1790?

The main Monklands Canal was completed at the end of the 18th Century to transport coal to Glasgow. Blackband iron stone was discovered by David Mushet crossing ghe bed of the Calder near several small villages in the area of what became the Burgh of Coatbridge 5 or 6 miles SE of Glasgow. There were no more than a couple of small forges in the area in 1801 when Mushet set up Calder Ironworks, which later over by Wm. Dixon and Co. of Govan in 1802. They started to become profitable thanks to Napoleon. Monklands Iron Works started in nearby Calderbank in 1805 and where the hot blast process of iron ore smelting invented by James Beaumont Neilson was introduced in 1828. Neilson's process of iron ore smelting made the combination of local ironstone and type of coal more profitable, and several large ironworks were then established in the Coatbridge area. Baird Bros. started Gartsherrie in 1830, Dundyvan started around 1833 (but ceased around 1870; Summerlee was started by Wilson and Co. in 1837; Carnbroe by Merry and Cunningham in 1838; J and J Addy commenced by Langloan in 1841; and there were many smaller works begun. There were 7 blast furnaces in Coatbridge by 1830, rising to 46 by 1840 and 60 by 1850. By 1861 there were at least 8 malleable ironworks and over 160 puddling furnaces in operation. In 1835 Bairds built Coatbridge Inn and adjoining shops, and it was said that the Baird family of Gartsherrie created Coatbridge. Amongst other works Caledonia Tube Works started in 1844; Coats Iron Works started in 1854; Clyde Tube Works in 1863; and the Second North British Ironworks in 1868. There was a depression in the iron trade from 1857 to 1863. The closed topped furnace was first introduced by Mr. Ferrie at Monklands Iron Co. around 1870, making production significantly more efficient. By 1871 the iron industry employed 40% of adult men in Scotlland. Coats Iron and Steel Co. formed in 1884. In 1885 there were 33 blast furnaces at four of the ironworks. (Summerlee, Carnbroe, Langloan, and Gartsherrie.) In 1888 Monklands Iron Co. was replaced by Calderbank. Many ironworks in Britain were sold or closed i the late 1870's due to collapse in iron prices. The population of Old Monkland Parish increased from around 4,000 in 1801 to 25,000 in 1851 and doubled again by 1901.

The new techniques introduced into Scotland in the 1840's meant that Scottish ironmasters recruited experienced puddlers, shinglers, and rollers from the established ironworking areas of England and Wales. These skilled workers were well paid and frequently earned sufficient to fund the start-up of their own malleable works that were much less expensive to build compared with blast furnaces. Outstand among iron workers who graduated to brcome Iron Masters were Thomas Ellis and the Leonard family,"

George Thomson, The Iron Industry of thr Monklands, Scottish Industrial History, 1982.

James and Sarah had at least 10 children. They may have been married at a Methodist chapel in Brierley Hill. They moved to Scotland in the 1840's.

Sarah Scriven was born in 1785 in Staffordshire, England. James Leonard and she were married on 11 October 1811 in Saint Thomas Church, Dudley, Worcestershire, England. She died on 14 February 1867 at age ~82 in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

Elizabeth Leonard was born in 1813 in Brierley Hill, Staffordshire, England. She died in 1878 at age ~65 in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

She lived with her parents, never married, and died at Dudley House, Coatbridge, in 1878, leaving 200 pounds to her sister, Sarah.

Thomas Leonard was born on 26 March 1815 in Brierley Hill, Staffordshire, England. He and Ellen Jones were married about 1838 in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England. He died on 8 September 1890 at age 75 in Cofn Mawr, Denbighshire, Wales.

Thomas worked as a forgeman or finer and lived in Lower Mitton, Bewdley, Stourport from 1841 to 1861. He owned Ponty Aylete Forge, Llangollen, Denbighshire, Wales. Also 2 freehold houses in Gorsty Bank. The couple had no children.

Ellen Jones was born in 1819 in Ruabon, Denbighshire, Wales. Thomas Leonard and she were married about 1838 in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England. She died in 1881 at age ~62 in Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales.

Sarah Leonard was born in 1838.

Jemima Howland Leonard was born in 1841.

Thomas Jones Leonard was born in June 1843 in Ruabon, Denbighshire, Wales. He and Fanny Elizabeth Ridsdale were married in April 1872 in Stockton, Durham, England. He died on 25 April 1913 at age 69 in Stockton, Durham, England.

Fanny Elizabeth Ridsdale was born in 1848. Thomas Jones Leonard and she were married in April 1872 in Stockton, Durham, England.

Anna Rosea Leonard was born in 1876.

James Leonard was born in September 1845 in Ruabon, Denbighshire, Wales. He died in January 1910 at age 64 in Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales.

He married in Apr 1893 and had a son, James Henry, b. 1862 in Ruabon.

Mary Ann Leonard was born about 1815 in Brierley Hill, Staffordshire, England.

Mary Ann Leonard was baptized on 24 September 1815 in Brierley Hill, Staffordshire, England. She was christened on 24 September 1815 in Brierley Hill, Stafford, England.

Joseph Leonard was born on 30 April 1816 in Brierley Hill, Staffordshire, England. He and Ann Jones were married.

John Leonard was born before 2 March 1817 in Brierley Hill, Staffordshire, England. He and Ann Jones were married in 1838 in Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales.

He was a puddler. John Leonard was baptized on 2 March 1817 in Brierley Hill, Staffordshire, England.

James Leonard was born on 19 April 1820 in Brierley Hill, Staffordshire, England. IGI: C033922,, Source Call No. 0426599. He and Bridget ("Biddy") Thorpe were married in April 1840 at Saint Giles Church in Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales. He died on 29 October 1860 at age 40 in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

James was an iron roller in the Dundyvan Works, Coatbridge, in 1846. In 1851, James was a malleable iron maker living at 83 Square, Long Road, Dundyvan. He was an iron master at the time of his death. James Leonard was baptized on 2 September 1821 in Brierley Hill, Staffordshire, England.

Bridget ("Biddy") Thorpe was born in 1818 in Yorkshire, England. James Leonard and she were married in April 1840 at Saint Giles Church in Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales. She died on 29 October 1860 at age ~42 in Dundyvan Road, Coatbridge, Lanark.

Joseph Leonard was born in 1842 in England. He died in 1860 at age ~18.

Joseph Leonard was a He was an iron roller. He puchased i/3 of an acre at 16 Dundyvan Road, known as Leonard Land.

About 1856, James and brother-in-law Thomas Ellis took a lease of Ronald's Forge on East Canal Street and turned it into a small malleable iron works, the Phoenix, capable of turning out 150 tons of finished iron per month.

James A. Leonard was born about 1850 in Old Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

Charles Leonard was born in 1855 in Old Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland. He and Anna were married.

Anna was born in 1862. Charles Leonard and she were married.

Elizabeth Matilda Leonard was born about 1859 in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

Sarah Leonard was born about 1821 in Brierley Hill, Staffordshire, England. Thomas Ellis and she were married on 28 December 1840 in Rippondon, Yorkshire, England. She died on 4 February 1895 at age ~74 in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

She was baptized the same day as her brother James.

Thomas Ellis was born in 1818. He and Sarah Leonard were married on 28 December 1840 in Rippondon, Yorkshire, England. He died in 1884 at age ~66.

Thomas Ellis came to Scotland abt. 1482, initially to Glasgow, then to Coatbridge where he was very successful in the iron and gas business. He built up the North British Ironworks in Coatbridge, which eventually specialized in wiremaking and employed about 500 men. Thomas Ellis was baptized in 1818 in Whittington, Shropshire, England.