On 29 Mar 2006, at 09:25, Jenny Barron wrote:
Hi Lorri, I googled and came up with these sites
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/Tolland/index.html
Tolland is in Somerset, about 20 miles north of Honiton (Devon).
http://www.portsdown.demon.co.uk/lace.htm
The info on that site seems very dubious to me:
"Records for Devon and Southampton show lacemakers in great numbers. In
1698 there were 1,081 lace makers in Salisbury, 336 in Downton and 500
in Blandford."
Which records are they? The earliest English censuses (apart from
Domesday) was 1801 and that was only a head count. 1841 before you get
info about occupations.
"The Lace Guild publish photographs of 17th Century bobbins that have
been excavated from old cottages and retrieved from wrecks.
Reproduction bobbins are also made by them."
Photos of old bobbins may have been published by the Lace Guild but The
Lace Guild does not, and never has made bobbins, reproduction or
otherwise.
"Bibliography - The Lace Guild The Hollies Stourbridge. E Midlands"
That's not a book! and the correct postal address of the Lace Guild is:
The Hollies, 53 Audnam, Stourbridge, West Midlands DY8 4AE
Just because he was Duke of Somerset doesn't mean he lived in Somerset.
The National Register of Archives lists just one record about the Duke
of Somerset's charity, Stoke Abbots in Dorset, held at the Wiltshire &
Swindon Record Office. Also I've found details of a book sold by
Wiltshire Family History Society 'Duke of Somerset's Charity & others
in Salisbury & Wilton Free School & those apprenticed'.
So, without better references, I'd guess that Dorothy Newall who was
apprenticed to weaver William Sidney in 1689 probably lived in
Wiltshire.
Brenda
http://www.portsdown.demon.co.uk/lace.htm
jenny barron
Scotland
Lorri Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
To a Gentle Spider in the UK
I have recently found that my father's ancestors came to the USA in
1630 from
Tolland, Somerset, England.
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