Silk winders and throwsters

[heathgirl]

Here's a few from London:
Charlotte Fosh - silkwinder related by marriage - died 1852, has will on Ancestry
Thomas Cross - a weaver, likely of silk - born Cumberland square Shoreditch
Thomas Cross - Silk Weaver - 4 Willow Walk, Spitalfields and New Yard Inn

[carol8353]

My mother came from silk town (Macclesfield,Cheshire) lots of silk mills there.
Both my grandparents worked in the mills,my grandad (b 1893) was a silk embroiderer.

Their surname was Worth.

Carol