This is from one of two knitting blogs I read, KDD & co. (the other is
Mason-Dixon Knitting). Kate Davies is a wonderful designer with a
remarkable story of recovery/adaptation from a stroke at 36. If that
weren't enough, she is usually modeling her creations in the stunning
Scottish scenery
Correction to my previous message - I was hurrying and didn't proof read
properly
-Original Message-
From: Malvary Cole
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2019 9:50 AM
To: brid...@bigpond.com ; Lace@arachne.com
Subject: Re: [lace] re Find my past "free" ancestry site
I double checked part of
I double checked part of the 1871 census for Honiton, Devon and there are
several ladies described as Lace Makers or Lace Manufacturers, and it shows
where they were born. There are many more ladies with no occupation shown
and I many of them may well have been lace makers, but it wasn't
When we visited in August last year, the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) in
Vienna, Austria, had a very large room where lace of many types was displayed.
There is an online collection:
https://sammlung.mak.at/en/collection_online?=lace
Incidentally, "Anno O. alias Bertha Pappenheim, the first of
With Ancestry ,Find My Past, The Genealogist and any other websites with
census transcriptions you can report transcription errors (and there were
plenty of them down to poor handwriting, transcription by non-native/non-local
people and general lack of palaeography skills) but if they have chosen
