Hawker of pots/earthenware

[emmsthheight]

PS
(Second attempt.  It just ate the first one!)

I did look at all the hawking licences a couple of years ago.  They were in Carlisle and at the time they were off site though they should be at the new record office now.

they took the form of a register in a book, by year with name and town.

The interesting thing was that a large proportion on each page were your family and the families they married into such as Youing and McCulloch.  Also they went from 19c well into 20C and where there were names repeated for years on end they often had a year or two missing.

Did they correspond with the reports in the paper for hawking without a licence???!!!

Again I do not have my records with me.

I'll be in touch with my friend and get back.

Best wishes

Emms

[emmsthheight]

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Crossed with you!

How exciting!

No I don't know your family from Yorkshire, but how kind of you to invite me.  I'll send a pm about Thursday.  I don't want to gatecrash and I'm not 100% at the moment but I might manage the CVockermouth &/or Dearham bit.

Yes Joanne and Chuck are the family I'm in touch with.

I'd love to meet a real live Keenan - I was in Carlsile earlier.

Thank you again.

Best wishes

Emms

[hiyamarra]

Sorry to disappoint Emms but i'm not a real live Keenan
My Grandmother was Elizabeth Keenan
The lady who will be  with me Thursday is also a grand daughter of a Keenan
Actually we haven't met before either, we were introduced my Chuck
If you'd like to spend the afternoon with us, it would be a pleasure not a gatecrash
Let me know and we'll make a plan to pick you up after archives
Anyway, 3 heads will be better than 1 at solving riddles

[emmsthheight]

Hi

You defntely count as a real live Keenan to me!

Much closer than me anyway!

If you're nstill up for it ntomorrow pm sounds great.

I'll pm you some more details and you can see what you think.  I'll see what info I have with me too.

Take care

Emms

[hiyamarra]

Hi Emms your message came as I'm digging away at records again
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[streetprice]

I have discovered a great grandmother, Bridget Moran- who was the second wife of  my great grandfather Peter McGinn- I think there was also a third wife but I have not discovered her yet. She is listed as an earthenware dealer living in Birkenhead up until about 1876 when she died of TB. I think she was born in Ireland. Anyone else know of earthenware dealers of that name in the Cheshire, Chester, Lancashire, Liverpool, North Wales area? Do you think she could have been from an Irish Traveller family? I am also interested in whether she would have made the pots (my sister is a potter) or bought and sold them. Any thoughts?

[hiyamarra]

Selling pots & earthenware was a typical trade of travellers & gypsies
It is highly unlikely they made the wares as this involves a kiln and infrastructure which is expensive and not typical of a traveller

[davidpaul]

i have ancesters as dish hawkers in scotland on 1911 they hawked verious things from baskets linin baskets to earthenware even flowers in scotland and cumbria and northumberland ,have one of them in durham as wireman hawker they travelled all over doing this.

[Skoosh]

"Elfie Delfie" as they used to shout in my young day. Presumably a Delft origin?

Skoosh.