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Dorset / Re: WADMAN or WEEDMAN - Gillingham, Dor
« on: Friday 06 March 20 14:56 GMT (UK) »
Hi Al: if you look on Findmypast or Ancestry census records there are both Wadman and Wodman girls working as throwsters ( winding raw silk yarn) in the silk mill from a young age. Sadly neither 1841 nor 1871 list occupations, but 1851/61/81/91 do.