Brian, Pat Brunsden wrote an article for Lace - the Lace Guild magazine - a few years ago detailing a survey of census data for the lace villages of Cambridgeshire /Huntingdonshire. I can dig it out for you over the weekend if no one else has done so. Nicky Howener-Townsend has done something similar for the Lacemakers of Suffolk around the town of Eye, but that is strictly not East Midlands I suppose.
I live right on the edge of the Huntingdonshire lace district, close to St Neots, which issued a lace token in 1664, and has poor house records on lacemaking dating back to 1594. If I remember rightly there were two lacemakers recorded on one of the census returns in the next village, Toseland, (a tiny hamlet really), but not in mine, Yelling, 3 miles further east. Both were classic small agricultural villages. I shall see if I can find the records again. Louise Battening down the hatches in preparation for the high winds today/tomorrow! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2019 23:40:52 +1000 From: <[email protected]> Subject: [lace] List of lace making towns/villages in East Midlands??? I thought it would be easy to get a list of the above places where lace makers were active, say in 1850? (+ or -) But so far I have failed. I can get a couple of lists dated 1700 but that is too early for my purposes. I want to create a map (I learned how this afternoon!!) of these places as I am a visual person. Does anyone have a list they would care to share with me (and eventually all of you!) Fingers crossed and much advanced thanks Sorry I keep asking for help!! Brian Schlumberger-Private - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
