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Hello. can any one help me please. i am looking for information on John Chance. who was a chartist from 1838-1861. he was a glass manufactora . but he has no connection to Chance's Glass . can any one help thank you.

Hi Susy do you have a dob or any other info pls?

Hello Jan . I am sorry that is all i have i found him in book i was reading last year i came accross him by accident . all i know is he was a glass manufactorer in Stourbridge and was active in the chartist movement from 1838 to 1861. i have been in touch with the Chance family of glass maker's and he is'nt connected to them .

Hi Susy, I checked the Old Swinford Census for 1851 and there is not one John Chance who is listed as a Glass Manufacturer. Also checked Bentley's Directory for 1841, no Chance in there under Glass Makers. Are you sure he didn't just work for a Glass Manufacturer rather than being one himself? Some records in books and the like aren't always 100% accurate. I also have a Chance Tree for Old Swinford, there is no John Chance Glass Manufacturer on there either, although there were a lot of John Chances. Linell.

I found this on a Charterist List:-

CHANCE, John of Old Swinford, one of the main leaders of The Chartist Movement in the Blackcountry together with Sam Cooke.
Sam Cooke was Samuel Cook of Dudley, one of the leaders of the movement.

Linell.

try these links

"By the autumn of 1841, signatures on the second Chartist petition were being gathered enthusiastically throughout the country, and plans were drawn up for a Convention to be held in London in April 1842. In November 1841, delegates from Chartist bodies throughout the district met to elect their delegates to the Convention. Present were:
Richard Thompson, Freeman Street NCA, Birmingham;
Thomas Davis, Steelhouse Lane NCA, Birmingham;
George Browning, Wednesbury;
James Scholefield, Walsall;
Francis Forbes and John Chance, Stourbridge; and John Cadley, Bilston.
The meeting was chaired by John Cadley."

http://www.chartists.net/Black-Country-Chartists.htm

http://www.chartists.net/-Unity-conference-1842.htm

http://thepotteries.org/biographies/yates/b.htm

http://www.amielandmelburn.org.uk/colle ... artism.pdf

linell wrote:I found this on a Charterist List:-

CHANCE, John of Old Swinford, one of the main leaders of The Chartist Movement in the Blackcountry together with Sam Cooke.
Sam Cooke was Samuel Cook of Dudley, one of the leaders of the movement.

Linell.

This is Samuel
http://bcconnections.tribalpages.com/tr ... =331206037

Thank you all for your reply's i will take a look.

Moving this now to archived section
if you need it back for further discussion just pm a moderator and we can
bring it back to the board

It might be an idea to visit Dudley Archives or contact them to see if they
have any more information, I know they do on Samuel Cook.