A big thank you to everyone who replied, either personally or to the list, about my question re lacemaking in Northamptonshire in the 1800s. It is interesting to learn (be reminded of? my memory is lacking these days!) that there was a Northamptonshire lace though I have yet to discover how it differs from Buckinghamshire. It was also lovely to hear about other people's textile-making ancestors. To clarify one item, 'my' branch of the Braybrooks moved from Keyston to Folksworth in Huntingdonshire and being a male relative, the lacemaking wouldn't have gone with him anyway. The family then went further into Huntingdonshire, to Broughton. I sometimes wonder what they would think about my trying to find out about them after all this time and from such a distance. As to the fact that an international discussion went on, electronically, about what type of lace might have been made - and the vast amount of knowledge on the subject of some of you - one can only assume that it would have been completely beyond their ken!
Oh, and Adele, your absence from the RAL meeting was noted :-) Regards, Helen (in Vancouver, BC on the west coast of mainland Canada where the earlier cloud has dissipated leaving a lovely clear blue sky and a red sunset) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
