murdererd children (2)

[Lakeslass]

Dot, thankyou - as always - for your help. The burials were in either Ribchester or Chipping, Lancashire. I should remember, but don't. I will look further into this when I can. Believe me, I've been in mourning for these two little ones for weeks.

Also, deeply sad about my young ancestors who worked underneath the machines in the cotton mills, working a twelve and a half day for five days a week and a nine and a half day on Saturday. No wonder so many of them died young.

[dotjhawkes]

It was incredibly dangerous and only small children were nible enough to scurry under the huge mechanism to unsnag the warp/weft, apart from breething in all the fabric dust

[gary baldy]

It was only 3 generations ago that kids worked in mills. Those of us with roots in Lancashire can still (just) hear first hand accounts of life in the mills.
The good old days eh?
Did you see Who do you think you are? tonight with Jeremy Paxman?

[dotjhawkes]

Missed that and I did intend watching it. You can't get more Lancashire than where I live there is a huge ring mill built in 1910 and it employed hundreds of women and men, it was a spinning mill and only closed in the 1960s

In the 1930s, my grandad used to go to work in the weaving sheds in Hebden Bridge even though he had a small hill farm too, it was the only way he could keep things going, my grandmother and uncle, who left school at 13, ran the farm.

[snook]

Just watched the Paxman programme, on video. The hardship those people suffered moved even ol' stoneface himself to tears. When I think of my own mother and father and what they went through, boy, how times have changed... it's true, you know, we really don't know we're born (which Paxman said as well, by the way).