Millwright of the Thrupp

John Ferrabee was described as “Millwright of the Thrupp” when his eldest son William was born. 

Edward Beard Budding, often styled “the jobbing Engineer”, is known to have worked closely with Edward Veriby at Thrupp on textile related machinery. He also worked at The Earl of Ducie’s Ironworks at Uley with Richard Clyburn, who plagiarised Budding's Registered design for an adjustable spanner, improved it, and patented it.

Uley Ironworks was at the Former Mill of Edward Sheppard on the River Ewelme, in the Valley below Uley and was repurposed for the agricultural works. After The Earl of Ducie closed the ironworks it became a sawmill, marked on the 1880s Ordnance Survey Maps as "Shepherds Mill."

Another Engineer resident at Uley Ironworks, who collaborated with John Ferrabee & Edward Beard Budding, was George Lister from Yorkshire. He was the father of R.A. Lister, the founder of Lister’s of Dursley Engineering Co.