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India Rubber/Cricket Ball factory near Leicester 1890s COMPLETED thanks
« on: Friday 17 August 12 13:42 BST (UK) »
I am helping with some research into a man who worked as a cricket ball quilter in 1895 when his first child was born - living at 7 Saffron Hill Row, Aylestone. He was described as an 'labourer at India Rubber Works [Compo Cricket Ball]' on the census in 1901 then moved to Canada in 1909, having been there previously in 1889 - 1891. He was working in lumbering in the 1911 Canadian census.

Does anyone know of a likely India Rubber factory in the area at that time making cricket balls?

Many thanks, Josey
Seeking: RC baptism Philip Murray Feb ish 1814 ? nr Chatham Kent.
IRE: Kik DRAY[EA], PURCELL, WHITE: Mea LYNCH: Tip MURRAY, SHEEDY: Wem ALLEN, ENGLISHBY; Dub PENROSE: Lim DUNN[E], FRAWLEY, WILLIAMS.
87th Regiment RIF: MURRAY
ENG; Marylebone HAYTER, TROU[W]SDALE, WILLIAMS,DUNEVAN Con HAMPTON, TREMELLING Wry CLEGG, HOLLAND, HORSEFIELD Coventry McGINTY
CAN; Halifax & Pictou: HOLLAND, WHITE, WILLIAMSON

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Re: India Rubber/Cricket Ball factory near Leicester 1890s
« Reply #1 on: Friday 17 August 12 22:20 BST (UK) »
Greeting’s. …….

" Dunlop Rubber Factory"…… Aylestone Meadows
Close to " St:Mary’s Mill Lock " on the Grand Union canal.

MIKE. 
Census Transcriptions are Crown Copyright from National Archives

Researching :-

Isle of Wight.          Oxfordshire / Warwickshire.

Cassell.                   Powers. 
Draper.                   Hirons.
Combs.                   Botts.
Stallard.                 Hall.

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Re: India Rubber/Cricket Ball factory near Leicester 1890s
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 18 August 12 10:06 BST (UK) »
Fantastic, thanks so much.

Josey
Seeking: RC baptism Philip Murray Feb ish 1814 ? nr Chatham Kent.
IRE: Kik DRAY[EA], PURCELL, WHITE: Mea LYNCH: Tip MURRAY, SHEEDY: Wem ALLEN, ENGLISHBY; Dub PENROSE: Lim DUNN[E], FRAWLEY, WILLIAMS.
87th Regiment RIF: MURRAY
ENG; Marylebone HAYTER, TROU[W]SDALE, WILLIAMS,DUNEVAN Con HAMPTON, TREMELLING Wry CLEGG, HOLLAND, HORSEFIELD Coventry McGINTY
CAN; Halifax & Pictou: HOLLAND, WHITE, WILLIAMSON

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Re: India Rubber/Cricket Ball factory near Leicester 1890s COMPLETED thanks
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 05 August 17 13:30 BST (UK) »
Hi Josey, I have just finished reading "The Green Bicycle Mystery" By Antony M Brown. You may find this book interesting because it's about the murder of a young girl in 1919 in Leicestershire England, who worked in the St. Marys Mills rubber factory.
I live not a million mile away from the factory, which is now split up into smaller units.

Big John H
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