The FURNIVAL family of blacksmiths

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tonyhayre
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I am researching my wife's paternal family history. Grandfather was Sydney Hugh FURNIVAL who was born in 1879 in Moreton Say, the son of John FURNIVAL, the village blacksmith. Johns father, was also named John and a blacksmith. My understanding is that the blacksmith trade was probably handed down from two or three generations earlier in Moreton Say.

Eventually Sydney became a blacksmith and married Elizabeth Johnson in 1918, they settled in Ellesmere and had a son Jack and daughter Elizabeth.

I wonder if anyone can supply information about the blacksmiths and blacksmith trade in Shropshire. If there is anyone with more specific knowledge of the FURNIVAL blacksmiths, even better.