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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Kilners Glass
« on: Sunday 12 December 21 20:51 GMT (UK)  »
Anybody wanting to delve deeper into the Kilner Providence Glassworks at Thornhill Lees, particularly with regard to industrial relations, could do much worse than consult the local newspapers (Dewsbury Reporter, Batley Reporter, Huddersfield Chronicle et al) from the period 1874-1880. There were some right goings-on, including a big "scab workers" scandal that saw black-legs bussed in from Sunderland that resulted in pitched battles in the streets. It explains why the 1881 census for Thornhill Lees shows a significant number of inhabitants with origins in the north-east when, ten years previously, there was nary a Mackem to be had.

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Scargill/Leather/Kaye/Gill families in Emley
« on: Sunday 12 December 21 19:39 GMT (UK)  »
A post by Emley1786 mentioned that William Leather who married Susannah Parker appeared to have died prior to the 1841 census. That is incorrect. William Leather had been convicted of felony theft in April 1840 and was transported for 7 years, leaving Chatham Docks in December that year and arriving in Van Diemen's Land in April 1841. That explains why Susannah continued to be described in subsequent census returns as married, but her husband was (almost) nowhere to be found.

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