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Title: umbrella making in Millhouse Green
Post by: bykerlads on Friday 15 July 11 21:22 BST (UK)
Anyone know anything about the history of umbrella making in Millhouse Green, Penistone?
Title: Re: umbrella making in Millhouse Green
Post by: sunscreen on Saturday 16 July 11 16:38 BST (UK)
Hi

A firm called Wm Hoyland had a factory which made just the frames, they employed  local people also working from home assembling the parts. the factory has gone and replaced with a housing estate
sunscreen
Title: Re: umbrella making in Millhouse Green
Post by: bykerlads on Tuesday 19 July 11 17:45 BST (UK)
Do you happen to know when the factory first started?
Title: Re: umbrella making in Millhouse Green
Post by: jane l on Tuesday 19 July 11 18:01 BST (UK)
Samuel Fox founded Fox Umbrella Frames Ltd in 1842 in Stocksbridge, Sheffield if you google this you will find quite a bit of info about the company
jane
Title: Re: umbrella making in Millhouse Green
Post by: sunscreen on Tuesday 19 July 11 18:06 BST (UK)
Hi

William Hoyland started his own company in 1875
Title: Re: umbrella making in Millhouse Green
Post by: DavidFR on Tuesday 19 July 11 18:08 BST (UK)
Try this site:

http://www.traceyourancestors.net/familytree/hoyland/WilliamH.htm
Title: Re: umbrella making in Millhouse Green
Post by: jane l on Tuesday 19 July 11 18:12 BST (UK)
http://www.espinet.freeserve.co.uk/stocks/fox.htm
may be this will help
Title: Re: umbrella making in Millhouse Green
Post by: bykerlads on Tuesday 19 July 11 18:32 BST (UK)
Thanks, everyone- I'll have a good look at these sources.
I remember being told by my late father that Millhouse Green was famous for umbrella making- he was b. + brought up at Hade Edge/ Harden, Holmfirth but went to Penistone Grammar in the 1930's and worked pre-war as an office boy at Hepworth iron Co., so that area was "on his radar".
I was wondering if there was an umbrella link with my gggrandmother Hannah Swire, umbrella maker of Holmfirth who wed ( maybe because she was claiming to be "of age" but wasn't) in the Wortley/Penistone area in 1860.
Would she have made umbrellas for her clog+ patten-maker father or might she have been an out-worker for the Millhouse Green factory, I wonder? or even employed there.
A minor point in the family's story but I do find the work and education of my forebears really interesting.
Title: Re: umbrella making in Millhouse Green
Post by: jane l on Tuesday 19 July 11 18:40 BST (UK)
funny both my brother in law + my oh work at Hepworth iron co
jane
Title: Re: umbrella making in Millhouse Green
Post by: sunscreen on Tuesday 19 July 11 19:05 BST (UK)
yes, we grew up in Penistone, few of my family worked at Hepworth Iron, I think two of my Husband's Sisters worked at Hoylands - I did a few years at James Durrans - usually if you weren't employed by any of these companies, then it was Samuel Fox!

She would probably have been an 'outworker', I remember a few of my Friend's Mums doing this, so they were at home with the kids
 :)
sunscreen