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Bannister in Waterford
« on: Sunday 01 January 12 14:33 GMT (UK) »
Can anyone help find this person?  Richard Bannister, father William born around 1847 in Waterford.  His birth in Waterford is given in the 1881 and 1911 British census.  We can find very few Bannisters in Waterford and wonder if anyone can help us.
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Re: Bannister in Waterford
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 01 January 12 14:40 GMT (UK) »
Richard's birth is before the start of civil records so you will need to check for parish records. Do you have any idea which part of county Waterford your Bannister family came from ?

(presuming that birth year should read 1847, rather than 1947..)


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Re: Bannister in Waterford
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 01 January 12 14:45 GMT (UK) »
Sorry- slip of the finger!  I have found a baptism for an Ellen Bannister, father William, mother
Mary  Kelly in Portlaw District, Waterford - the only baptism I can find!!
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Re: Bannister in Waterford
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 01 January 12 14:47 GMT (UK) »
I presume you found that on RootsIreland ?

they only have RC baptisms at the moment, so wouldn't have any details if your Bannisters were some other denomination.

What's William's occupation on the marriage cert for Richard ?


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Re: Bannister in Waterford
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 01 January 12 15:27 GMT (UK) »
William was an 'overseer of winders', which we believe would have been in a spinning mill, but I can't think of any spinning mills other than in Belfast, Lisburn etc.
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Re: Bannister in Waterford
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 01 January 12 15:34 GMT (UK) »
I'm sure there were other Spinning Mills around Ireland - I know Greenmount Mills in Harolds Cross here in South Dublin were operation in 1846. Here's their entry from Slaters 1846

  Greenmount Spinning Company, cotton spinners
  and manufacturers by power, Harold's Cross;
  office and dye works Green villa, Love lane, Cork st

 

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Re: Bannister in Waterford
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 01 January 12 15:42 GMT (UK) »
The parish and town you mentioned of Portlaw is on the River Suir, so I checked the description for the town in Slaters - part of the entry could provide a clue...sounds like a substantial operation :

... change originated in the establishment of the extensive cotton factory of Messrs. Malcomson Brothers....The process embraces the preparation of the raw material, and finishing the fabric complete for use. The number of hands employed is about thirteen hundred, and all the machinery used is made on the premises. A canal has been cut by the spirited proprietor of these works from hence to the river Suir...

see : page 107


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Re: Bannister in Waterford
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 01 January 12 15:45 GMT (UK) »
Just found this - a Spinning Mill in Portlaw in the right era!

http://www.portlawns.com/Pages/history_of_portlaw.htm#The Portlaw Spinning Co.

so this may take us a step in the right direction, though I don't know where we can find Richard's birth.  Reading the history - it looks as if the family may have moved to Lancashire because of the failure of the mill.
This is where Richard turns up in 1877.
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Re: Bannister in Waterford
« Reply #8 on: Sunday 01 January 12 15:54 GMT (UK) »
what denomination were your Bannister family ?



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