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Title: Tambourer
Post by: Isabel Robertson on Friday 04 August 23 14:59 BST (UK)

I have a Janet Thomson (maiden Burnet) on the 1851 census in Bo’ ness working as a tambourer. Did they do this from home

Title: Re: Tambourer
Post by: rosie99 on Friday 04 August 23 15:11 BST (UK)

The replies on this thread may help
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=819172.0

Title: Re: Tambourer
Post by: GR2 on Friday 04 August 23 17:01 BST (UK)

I can see no reference in the 1845 Statistical Account, but there is this reference in the Old Statistical Account (1795). You have to move to page 554 for the reference to tambour factories.

https://stataccscot.edina.ac.uk/static/statacc/dist/viewer/osa-vol14-Parish_record_for_Linlithgow_in_the_county_of_Linlithgow_in_volume_14_of_account_1/osa-vol14-p547-parish-linlithgow-linlithgow?search=linlithgow

Whether 'factories' here refers to two workshops or if it merely refers to the organisation of the workers, I'm not sure.