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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Batley woollen workers, Germany 1880s
« on: Wednesday 16 February 05 22:22 GMT (UK)  »
I also have ancestors who left Batley to go and work in the textile industry in Germany. One was my great Grandfather James Hodgson Chew who took his family there around 1878. He was joined by two cousins, Edwin and Dixon. They were dyers and worked in a suburb of Berlin called Stralau. On their return to Batley they set up a firm selling chemical dyes to the textile industry. The firm Dixon Chew still exists in Batley.

I have not understood the impetus for this move to Germany. Was there a period of recession in textiles during the 1880's?

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