« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 20 June 07 17:11 BST (UK) »
Hi Sheila
I had forgotten googlebooks - used it for other ancestral family, but not for a long time.
It has yielded some more information such as the probable London church used by the WARD and family for several generations - the quaintly names St Benet Sherehog.
The French site was no problem. It is a compendium listing recent patents and discoveries. The one you picked up on was a machine for doubling threads of silk, linen and cotton - part of the spinning process. There is a British patent taken out in 1804 - my guess is for the same machine.
Chris
Researching BECKET, BLAKER, BORRER, FULLER, FRIEND, HARDS, HARDWICK, HODGSON, ISAACSON, KEMP, LINDFIELD, MARCHANT, SCRASE, SMITHERS in Sussex, UK
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HAYGARTH, HODGSON in West Riding Yorkshire, UK
ASHBY, MILLSON in London, UK
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DEBENHAM, DIXON, HUDSON, LEWES/LEWIS, NUNN, ROBINSON, SHARRER, WARD, WEGUELIN, WILLMOTT
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LISTER, RODGERS, THORPE in West Riding Yorkshire, UK
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RENSHAW
