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I am a volunteer researcher for the Quilters’ Guild of the British Isles. Those of us with some experience in genealogy use internet resources to see if we can find out anything about the quilters whose quilts are in the Guild’s museum collection.
I am currently trying to find out something about Eliza Parkinson (nee Madder), from Dalkey near Dublin. She is said to have lived between 1787 and 1871, and she was married to Dr. James Richard Parkinson. The quilt has a note which says that it was either made by her or by her Mother, Catherine Madder (nee Reeves). There is quite a lot of information about this family on An*****y public trees and other websites, but I think some of it is confused. Many people, for example, have James Parkinson as a shoemaker. No-one seems to be able to find the Parkinson-Madder marriage. Do any of you have any ideas of where I might look for it?
If anyone has an interest in this family, I would be happy to correspond.

Hello
I am a volunteer researcher for the Quilters’ Guild of Great Britain. The Guild has a museum collection of quilts, and it asks members who have some experience of genealogy research to research the quilt makers. I am currently researching Jane Ann Adamson (nee Dawson) of Gainford, near Darlington in County Durham, who lived between 1870 and 1952. I have been able to find out a lot about her: BMD records, censuses, wills and so on are available to me on Ancestry. However, I have two questions that I wonder if anyone can help me with.
Jane Ann married Ernest Clifford Adamson in 1901. He was a builder and continued a company that seems to have been built up by his father in the late nineteenth century. The company and family papers are in the Durham Archives, which is currently closed pending a relocation. Their extensive online catalogue suggests a very large and successful company, but I am wondering what happened to it. There is no-such company now, so it closed sometime since the 1930s. Does anyone have any idea why, and what happened?
My second question concerns Jane Ann’s role as Job Secretary to the Gainford and District Nursing Association. This is mentioned in a press cutting from 1946. Does anyone know what this association might have been? Was it a trade union, a professional organisation, or even a business? Again, there are papers in the Durham archives, currently inaccessible.
Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

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I have recently come across this. I have no idea where it came from! I just found it amongst stuff I was clearing out. James Kemp is not in my tree. If he is in yours, I will happily send this to you.

PS sorry it has gone in sideways. My IT skills are limited, but I am sure you can see what it is.

Hello

I have been corresponding about my research into this family and have been off-topic on another thread, so I am starting a new thread.

I am researching the family of John Nance Gooch of Suffolk in the late eighteenth - mid nineteenth century. I think he had sisters who made a quilt that the Quilters Guild of Great Britain has acquired for its museum collection. I am a member of the Guild and an amateur genealogist, and I have volunteered to do some research to see what I can find out about the family.

Worlygigger, in the other thread, you said you had researched John Nance Gooch's sisters. I believe he had seven. The information the Guild has been given is that the quilt was made by three of these sisters. I know it is unlikely that I shall find out which three, but I would like to try. I am looking for evidence of connections with textiles: drapers, weavers, or information in wills. I am also thinking John Nance Gooch's wife may have been involved in the quilt, because the evidence seems to point to the quilt being inherited through him, to their son Edward.

Any information or stories about the family are potentially useful, though.

I am happy to correspond with anyone about this, and to share anything I learn.

Harlemswife

Hi

I am enquiring about Ellen Charnley, nee Smart, (1860),  from Wigan. My interest is as a volunteer researcher for the Quilters' Guild. The Guild Museum has a quilt that was made by Ellen Charnley in around 1899, and they have asked Guild members who have some experience of family history research to help them to research the people who made the quilts in their collection. I have most of the details of Ellen's life from censuses and other records available on Ancestry. I am wondering, though, if anyone knows anything more about her and her family.  I would be happy to share what I have found.


Best wishes

Anne Spendiff