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What a lovely old photograph. I have't tried the tongue twister as I don't think my old tongue and teeth are up to the task these days
My first day at high school and we discovered our form mistress was the handicraft teacher. that day she handed everyone a portable weaving loom and some wool, with which we were to weave our own school coloured scarves.
Years later I received an 1841 census in the post and discovered my father's widowed gt. grandmother was a weaver with two teenage sons. I have no idea whether she had a handloom or worked in a factory. Her late husband John Crum had been a nailor and nearby was an Inkle Factory which made coloured braids. I assume there might have been plenty of nails needed for the type of work in that factory.
Aberdeen: Findlay-Shirras,McCarthy: MidLothian: Mason,Telford,Darling,Cruikshanks,Bennett,Sime, Bell: Lanarks:Crum, Brown, MacKenzie,Cameron, Glen, Millar; Ross: Urray:Mackenzie: Moray: Findlay; Marshall/Marischell: Perthshire: Brown Ferguson: Wales: McCarthy, Thomas: England: Almond, Askin, Dodson, Well(es). Harrison, Maw, McCarthy, Munford, Pye, Shearing, Smith, Smythe, Speight, Strike, Wallis/Wallace, Ward, Wells;Germany: Flamme,Ehlers, Bielstein, Germer, Mohlm, Reupke