Did your ancestor work as a chemical labourer or alkali worker?

[Siouxzie]

I thought I'd let other Cheshire researchers know about a helpful and informative site I found whilst "googling" -

 http://web.archive.org/web/20040726085642/http://www.homestead.com/lucys_jigsaw/BM.html 2014 Edit


The website posed the question I did in my heading and also whether your ancestor worked for Brunner Mond.  She has currently 3,000 employee names. Well Brunner Mond rang a bell with my mother in law so I emailed with my details.

I got a very prompt reply detailing my husbands great grandfather's work history, also the site owner has a database of some local names, and she sent me a datasheet of some 516 Maddocks, a name I am researching in Cheshire. 

So all in all well worth a look see if you have Cheshire ancestors in the Northwich area.

[dinkey]

Siouxzie

Thank you for information regarding this site. I am researching my husband's family history and his Dalton family come from Cheshire some of whom worked in the chemical industry.

My husband's 4x great Aunt Sarah Dalton born 1818 Barnton married 6 8 1836 St Lawrence Frodsham to William Maddocks born 1816 Barnton.
Their children were Abraham 1844 Frodsham, William 1850, Phoebe 1851, Emma 1856, Daniel 1861.

If you have any of these names in your tree I would love to hear from you.

regards

dinkey

[Siouxzie]

Hi dinkey,
I haven't come across your names yet, but I will bear them in mind and get back to you if I find a link.

Judith Wilde has got Maddocks listed as working at Brunner Mond, so I hope you have as much luck with her site as I did.  Although it was my Thomas Newall who worked there, whose son married a Maddock.  My Maddocks being clock and watchmakers from the Winsford area.  Samuel born c 1780 is as far as I have got with them.

Have you posted your interests on the surname interests table yet ?  I thought I was the only lonely rootschatter looking into the Maddock name.

Regards
Siouxzie

[dinkey]

Hi Siouxzie

My husband's Maddocks ancestors do not appear to have worked in the chemical industry but were bricklayers. I have also not done any further research on my husban'ds tree. I have been very selfishly concentrating on my own. I will get back to you if I come across any more Maddocks.

However, thanks for the prompt. You have reminded me that I need to post more names in the Surname Index.

regards

dinkey

[BOJANGELS2]

my great grandfather George Clarke  was an alkali labourer in widnes I believe in 1874 -and then later I believe he was a bricklayers labourer --would those be the same jobs but different tiltles

[stanmapstone]

They are different jobs.

Stan

[TerriG]

I've tried the link, but it's not working!  Help please! link now fixed

[stanmapstone]

homestead.com is a web hosting site, and the link dates from 2005, that particular web site  no longer exists.

Stan

[Mariam82]

My ancestor  Andrew Cavanagh was also an alkali labourer in Widnes around 1870-1886.  He died in 1891 unsurprisingly of bronchitis - probably due to the conditions in the factory.