That was interesting Louise, One of the things I do is keep an eye out for "England's Oldest Bobbin". Currently it is a Honiton Trolley dated 1662. We stand a chance with Honiton bobbins to reasonably date the bobbins because many have a date on them. What I took from your email, was that for East Midland bobbins, though we will not get a date for a bobbin but a token for an area would be interesting a possibly useful.
I will have to think about it. It would not be an Oldest bobbin, but it would be a "something"!! (Forgive the lack of academic vigour!!) Does anyone collect "Lace Tokens?" Real or virtual. Brian -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Louise Bailey Sent: Friday, 9 August 2019 8:56 PM To: '[email protected]' <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: [lace] RE: East Midlands lace villages 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/ -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. SPAMfighter has removed 96 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len Do you have a slow PC? Try a Free scan http://www.spamfighter.com/SLOW-PCfighter?cid=sigen - 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/
