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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: chuter on Monday 20 January 14 09:02 GMT (UK)
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my gran's 1911 census would some one know what it reads, Silk ----- Factory would it be plush ?
thanks in advance
cheers, chuter.
link to image removed, see reply #8
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It may be just me but when I viewed the attachment it was blank
Kay
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It may be just me but when I viewed the attachment it was blank
Kay
me too - no image there.
Mike
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sorry kay , mike .
My fault .
trying to read 1911 census handwiting .
census has my grandmother's employment down as Silk & looks like Plusher Factory, would any one know what a plusher factory was or is.
cheers chuter
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Without seeing the entry it could just be simply a Silk Polisher and refer to the fact he worked in a factory.
Regards
William Russell Jones.
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It could be Silk Plusher.
Grinder, plush grinder, silk plush grinder; silk plush shearer; a cropper who crops surface of plush piece goods.
"A Dictionary of Occupational Terms "
Stan
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Hi Chuter,
The file is showing 0kg so there is no content :-\ I would give it a try again take your original image and crop the part again and save as a different title.
Sarah :)
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I don't know if this applied to silk but there is a:
Polisher, yarn polisher; polisher winder; attends yarn polishing machine.
Stan
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Hi
If your question hasn't been answered by the suggestions, you need to go back to the 1911 census 'snippet'(don't post the whole page), and re-save it to your computer with a different name and attach it again by clicking on the modify button and editing your post.
I can delete the faulty attachment if you like.
Dawn
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Hi Chuter,
The file is showing 0kg so there is no content :-\ I would give it a try again take your original image and crop the part again and save as a different title.
Sarah :)
Can you not just give us her name and location?
Stan
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yes Stan , her name was Elizabeth. Bye. From Hunslet born 1886 Father Frederick. Bye. i know she worked in a mill as a silk reader before the 1911 census.
cheers chuter
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looking at the image it says silk reeler under occupation. then has been added silk and plush factory?
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Silk Reeler makes more sense, :)
Stan
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Reeler, reel mill hand; aka hank winder, skeiner, skein winder, swift piecer; minds a reeling machine, which winds spun yarn from bobbins on to reels in form of skiens or hanks.
Plush; . A rich fabric of silk, cotton, wool, or other material (or any of these combined), with a long soft nap, used esp. for upholstery, servants' livery, etc.
Stan
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thank you all for your help most grateful.
in some ancestry info they have Elizabeth down as a reeler, and a reader in another.
i realise that the person taking the census may have the wrong info from the
person or persons in the census, or that it has been misinterpreted between the
two parties Never the less i do believe there is a silk reader. This i believe relates to a
person tasked with setting the patten for the machines to weave, and could have been
as simple as setting a perforated card into or onto a rotating drum.
cheers chuter
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The 1911 census form was filled in by her father, so he would know what she did for a living. She was a silk winder in 1901.
Stan