« Reply #8 on: Monday 01 March 21 21:34 GMT (UK) »
Hello everyone
I am doing my grandmothers family history, her maiden name was Florence Collingwood the family lived in Filey East Yorkshire, I found my great grandfather on the 1891 census which said he was a fisherman on the same census was my grandmother Florence aged 20 her occupation was a wrapper pinner I can not make out what manufacture she worked for.
I have tried to research what a wrapper pinner was, I presume it had something to do with the textile industry, but can not find anything about the factories or textile industry in Hull at that time. can anyone help
I think she might have worked for the well loved Hull employer of Reckitt & colman who made Robin Starch
"The Reckitt family were also major benefactors to the people of Hull. The company was set up in 1840 by Isaac Reckitt when he purchased a starch works in Dansom Lane, Hull. The firm started by making starch-related products but soon branched out to include washing blue and blacklead for grates."
My mother wrapped the Reckitt blue bags and my grandfather worked with blacklead. Prior to the free National Health Service, one of the special things about Reckitts was they provided free health care and medicines for their workers
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