I think our modern way of life, with anything to do with 'handicrafts'
being seen as a female preserve, has a lot to answer for!
Both boys and girls went to lace schools as children. When older, the
lads tended to take on agricultural labouring jobs that possibly paid
more, whilst the women
Thank you Jane. I knew that someone would have other information on the
role of men in the lacemaking industry.
Maureen
E Yorks UK
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A great, g, g grandmother of my DH was down as a lacemaker on her marriage
banns but on all the later census was listed as an agricultural worker
although they had up to 12 children over the years. Her DH was an
agricultural worker always so do I assume that she brought up the children,
kept
Dear Friends,
This raises a question that has always puzzled me - does this truly mean
that the men themselves were lacemakers, or that they were employed in the
business of lace in the sense that they were middlemen who bought lace from
the women who were making it and then re-sold it?
Well
David, did you know that you had ancestors that were Lacemakers before you
started to make lace , or did you start to make lace after you found out, just
wondered.
Sue M Harvey
Norfolk
U.K.
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On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Sue Harvey 2harv...@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
David, did you know that you had ancestors that were Lacemakers before you
started to make lace , or did you start to make lace *before* you found
out, just wondered.
Sue M Harvey
Norfolk
U.K.
Dear all,
Fascinating topic. I speak with no authority other than Alex Stillwell told
me that a woman who was a lacemaker was in high demand as a wife because she
could bring in extra money. We must remember that for the lower classes it
was a hand to mouth existence, and so doing anything
This lady was born in about 1816 and married in the late 1830s I think. Her
sister was also a lacemaker at that time and I am trying to remember if a
couple of their daughters were lacemakers. They lived not too far away
from honiton but of course because of Carol Mcfadgeons (sp) work and
This raises a question that has always puzzled me - does this truly mean
that the men themselves were lacemakers, or that they were employed in the
business of lace in the sense that they were middlemen who bought lace from
the women who were making it and then re-sold it?
I came across this
Yesterday, DH was listening to Classic FM on the radio and heard a piece of
music whose composer was a lacemaker.
Being a good sort, he emailed to the presenter to ask for more information
and got a reply today.
It seems that the composer Jean-Marie Leclair (1697 - 1764) came from a
family of
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