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Derbyshire / Re: Blounts Hosiery Factory, Belper
« on: Monday 16 January 12 20:44 GMT (UK)  »
Hi 141 :)
Thanks for your reply. You've prompted me to spend some time checking through census information and I think I've found evidence that my father-in-laws family are related to Fred Blount who started the Blounts Factory!
The John and Charlotte that you mention, as well as having their son James, also had John and George as other sons. This John Blount is my husbands GGG Grandfather = he had a son James, who had a son, JOhn, who had Dennis, who had Peter my father in law. John and Charlottes son George  Blount is the father of Fred Blount who started the factory - I think that means that James (son of John born c. 1824/25)  and Fred were cousins so I can at last tell my father-in-law that they were related to the founder of the Blounts factory!! 8)
Hope that makes sense to you - I'm even confused typing it!!

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Derbyshire / Re: Blounts Hosiery Factory, Belper
« on: Sunday 15 January 12 20:00 GMT (UK)  »
Hi  :) i'm new to Rootschat but was fascinated tonight to find the information about Blount's Hosiery Factory in Belper. I've just come from viiting my father in law, a Blount, whose whole family (parents, brother and sister and himself) worked at Blounts in the 1940's after the war when the factory was given back by Rolls Royce. He has alwaya been under the impression that his grandfather, Jon George Blount (born about 1877) was the cousin of Fred Blount who started the factory.
However, there are so many Blounts in belper, all with the same names, that it' s very difficult to work out who was related to who ???

I'm now beginning to think I've got the wrong branch of Blounts in my records - the info I have gathered shows John george's father and mother as James and Elizabeth and it looks like James's father was  a John Blount, married to a Sarah.

It may be that this John Blount (born about 1822/3) was the brother of George, who fathered Frederick in 1877, so my father-in-law could be related, but i think i need to do more research!! My father-in-law wroked with Aunty Laurain Blounts factory. Any info welcome!!

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