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Nottinghamshire / Re: A LACE JENNIER
« on: Tuesday 20 January 09 19:01 GMT (UK)  »
John

many thanks for this response.  I can now, at least, visualise what the task would have been. 

Putting my grandmother's young life together has proved difficult, but knowing her work before she married helps build a picture of her.  She moved from Nottingham to Derby after her marriage, lost her first husband at the Somme in 1916 and eventually married my grandfather and lived until thes late 1970's but she rarely spoke of her childhood.

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Nottinghamshire / Re: A LACE JENNIER
« on: Monday 19 January 09 21:18 GMT (UK)  »
Lace  joiner?  No, this is clearly lace jennier, and on 1911 Census for Bolton, Lancs another relation is a cotton spinning gentor... so I think different areas had their local names for the job, and I think theh *jenny* element may be the best option.  Thanks for that info though.

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Nottinghamshire / Re: A LACE JENNIER
« on: Monday 19 January 09 18:51 GMT (UK)  »
The spinning jenny connection is what I had in my own mind regarding this job. 

Thanks for the info on Nottingham Library, when I get chance to go over there I'll check them out. 

I know so little about my grandmother's early life in Nottingham that I have this need to know every detail I can gather!


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Nottinghamshire Lookup Requests / Where would I find ...
« on: Sunday 18 January 09 22:18 GMT (UK)  »
information about my  husband's great grandmother's family, who were tailors in Nottingham in the 1861 Census, would they be listed in any of the directors that are mentioned on here?

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Nottinghamshire / A Lace Jennier
« on: Sunday 18 January 09 22:12 GMT (UK)  »
Just pulled my grandmother's 1911 Census details up and she was employed as a Lace Jennier in Nottingham.  Cannot find this job title anywhere to pin down what the job was, so does anyone know who can fill me in please?  I  know she did work in the lace factories, but nothing more than that.

Also, where would the lace factories be in relation to Havelock Street, which  I cannot even find on an old map!


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Other Countries / Re: Henderson from West Indies
« on: Friday 07 December 07 21:50 GMT (UK)  »
thanks, will go check it out over the weekend.

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Other Countries / Henderson from West Indies
« on: Friday 07 December 07 21:00 GMT (UK)  »
Does anyone know where I would even begin to locate birth records for a William Grant Henderson, West Indies British Subject who is on UK Census records for 1851 and 61?

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