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Topic: Westons and the lace industry in Nottingham and Scranton, PA (Read 590 times)
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mareanna
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I am trying to find out more about the family business called Samuel Weston & Sons Ltd Yarns who had offices at 15 & 17 George Street. This building was designed by the Victorian architect Watson Fothergill, and is still standing. I have been to take photos of it, very fine indeed. What I don’t know is which Samuel the company is named after. My grandfather was Samuel Edward Weston (first wife Ida Jones) and his father was Samuel Weston (wife Elizabeth Langham). A family member has obtained a company calendar for 1934, kindly donated by the Pollards, another family connected to the lace industry. The Westons I’ve found have mainly been in Lenton, Nottingham. A link from this is that one of Samuel brothers, James Weston, emigrated to Pennsylvania with his wife Eliza (Case) and their children Arthur, Samuel (yes another one), Florence, Lily and Ethel. James was an experienced engineer who apparently played a big part in setting up the machinery for the Scranton Lace Factory in the early 1890s. I have information about the emigration from Liverpool to Ellis Island. James eventually became an American citizen and died in Illinois. Any information about the Weston business in Lenton or James Weston and the factory in Pennsylvania would be gratefully received.
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Weston/Wesson, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire & Leicestershire
Merriman - Stanford
Antill and Wood-Antill, in Mountsorrel, Leicestershire and in Trefor, Caernarfonshire
Bamford, Northamptonshire
Curtis
Richards
Elwin
Locker
Robinson
Langham
Langsdale
Ferguson - Ireland and Devon
Bamford
Newbold
Dobie - Dumfriesshire & Co Durham
Jones, incl Broster Jones and Tyzack Jones
Scranton, Philadelphia
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Jane Swan
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Hi
Have you looked in
http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/d.asp
You don't give the dates you are interested in.
Also Nottinghamshire Archives:
http://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/atoz-archives
Jane
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Notts: Burrows, Comery, Foster, Beeson, Haynes, Swan. Derbys: Burrows, Comery, Smith Lincs: King. Warks & Salop: Swan, Duffy. Dublin: Duffy, Geraghty, Burgess. Monmouth: Lewis Information contained within Census Lookups is Crown Copyright: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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mareanna
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Thank you very much for the links. I will be spending quite some time going through the directory. Not being local to Nottingham anymore makes checks of information difficult though.
Good news on the USA front, have been contacted by an American descendent of James Weston with details of that part of the family tree and a newspaper cutting of James' obituary. The library in Scranton have confirmed I can use their facilities to search for historical documents. Just need to get there now!
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Weston/Wesson, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire & Leicestershire
Merriman - Stanford
Antill and Wood-Antill, in Mountsorrel, Leicestershire and in Trefor, Caernarfonshire
Bamford, Northamptonshire
Curtis
Richards
Elwin
Locker
Robinson
Langham
Langsdale
Ferguson - Ireland and Devon
Bamford
Newbold
Dobie - Dumfriesshire & Co Durham
Jones, incl Broster Jones and Tyzack Jones
Scranton, Philadelphia
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mareanna
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Posts: 30
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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I have now found family details of those descended from James Edward Weston. It seems that James was persuaded to leave Kimberley for Scranton by a Mr Mosley, who I understand either owned or (part) managed a lace factory in Nottingham. Mr Mosley also persuaded James’ wife and children to join him and to recruit others from the Nottingham area for Scranton. Maybe your family tree has those fellow emigrants? What is becoming clearer is the link between the two towns. Although the lace factory in Scranton is now closed, there are a substantial number of documents with no-one to index/archive/research them. The fact that lace looms were shipped across the Atlantic must surely have been documented somewhere in a local paper (was the Nottingham Evening Post publishing in the 1890s?). In a book of notes by his son, Samuel Weston, James is credited with inventing the square hole in lace. The significance of this I do not understand. Is there anyone researching the emigration of skilled workers and export of machinery to the USA who could use or further explore this information, or point me in the right direction?
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Weston/Wesson, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire & Leicestershire
Merriman - Stanford
Antill and Wood-Antill, in Mountsorrel, Leicestershire and in Trefor, Caernarfonshire
Bamford, Northamptonshire
Curtis
Richards
Elwin
Locker
Robinson
Langham
Langsdale
Ferguson - Ireland and Devon
Bamford
Newbold
Dobie - Dumfriesshire & Co Durham
Jones, incl Broster Jones and Tyzack Jones
Scranton, Philadelphia
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