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Occupation Interests / Re: Framework Knitters, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire
« on: Thursday 24 January 08 11:15 GMT (UK)  »
Hiya everyone,

Thanks so much for your informative and helpful post, Paulene.  My interest is in the family history side as so many of my Chantrys are based in Blidworth, Halam, Arnold  and Mansfield as FWKs.

My daughter however is interested because she is currently studying for a PhD which involves her working at Ruddington FWK museum to learn the Lee handframe and she also has to work with G.H Hurts soon using their traditional machines.  I know the information of public sources you (and others on the thread) have shared will be useful links for her to follow up. So thank-you.  Hopefully as her work progresses, the website at Ruddington will have photos of her knitting, and a weblog and photos of items  of her work.  When it is up and running I will let the thread know the details. 

Karen   

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One Name Studies: A to G / Re: CHANTRY, CHANTREY, CHAUNTRY
« on: Sunday 28 October 07 15:34 GMT (UK)  »
If we go back far enough I am sure there will be some links.  The CHANTREY name & its variants of CHANTRY, CHAUNTRY, CHANTREE and CHANTERIE are relatively uncommon...there are barely 500 listed in the whole of the 1881 UK census. 

This is one of the reasons I started tracing the paternal side of my tree...my maternal side is ROBERTS of which there are over 150,000 in the same 1881 census and 15,000 in the county of my mother's birth!

Some variants seem to remain in certain counties e.g. CHANTREE to Lincolnshire & Nottinghamshire but some seem to be found all over.  According to the Census Concentration Data I have for London & Middlesex there were in 1841 - 9 Chantreys and 44 Chantrys, in 1851  4 & 52, in 1861  18 & 63, in 1871 18, 61 and 3 Chantrees and in 1891 18 & 50.

So I think it is possible to link the London families back to the origins of the families in either, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire or Derbyshire.  I'll see how far back I can make the links for Albert Victor Jesse as it would be good to make some links with Australia.

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Nottinghamshire / Re: CHANTRY, CHANTREY, CHAUNTRY
« on: Sunday 28 October 07 11:22 GMT (UK)  »
Hiya

I too am descended from George and Elizabeth, William & Dorothy & William & Helene and researching the Chantrey name and variants in Notts, Derbys, Lincs and South Yorks. 

I found one parish priest registered the baptisms of children  born to one family in the same parish over about ten years, under three different spellings (Chantry, Chantrey,Chauntry) so I look for all the spellings now  :)

Would be very willing to compare notes
Karen

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Occupation Interests / Re: Framework Knitters, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire
« on: Sunday 28 October 07 10:50 GMT (UK)  »
Have only just found this thread, so hope there are still folks interested in FWK in the East Midlands.  Many of the CHANTREY ( CHANTRY /CHANTREE / CHANTERIE /CHAUNTRY) families in Nottinghamshire that I am researching, had this as their occupation. 

Don't know if folks are aware that the various Museums mentioned on the thread often have folks actually demonstrating how the machines were used.  I know because my daughter as part of her studies is being trained to do this at Ruddington.  I sat on Wednesday and watched as she learned how to operate the machine.  It was fascinating to watch...it takes eight different moves of pedals and handles to make just one row of knitting...and the noise!  Apparently expert knitters could do over 40 rows a minute!  I can't imagine the noise at that speed!

Anyhow just thought if you are visiting the East Midlands and visiting a museum, try to do it on a day when there's a demonstration...it's well worth it.

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