Papermaker - Partington

[Keith Bateman]

Hi All

I am looking for some of my family who went from Manchester to Deven to make paper.

I rememberd that one of them drank "poison" and after this he worked as a wages clerk and died when he was about 40.

I am wondering how they all got there - was it by that new inveriol the train 

                 Thant you

                                  The Cheshire Cat

[bodger]

In the  1950s there was a paper making company Olive & Partington in Glossop Derbyshire, that is quite near to Manchester

[Ronnie6492]

Hi, some years ago I was in contact with someone connected to the Partington papermakers but cannot find that info yet. There was a family called partington from Lancs who were living in Ivybridge Devon and working at the local papermill - James and Frances were in Stretford Lancs 1861(he was papermaker) census but by 1871 in Ivybridge with large family and still there in 1891. If I can find details of the contact I will post it here.

 :)Ronnie

[Keith Bateman]

Hi All,

Thanks badger, I remember looking for that lot - but it was not my family (perhaps I should look back a couple of hundred years!  )

Ronnie - YES - Great that is my lot!!!
Any information is great - I know they had a large family - but I do have a new notebook! 

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[KGarrad]

There appear to be 2 families in 1871:

Reference RG10, Piece 2097, Folio 34, Page 9
Cottage, Ugborough, Totnes

Partington, John  Head  M  29  Paper-maker  b Stretford, Lancashire
Partington, Eliza  Wife  F  28  b Ivybridge, Devon
Partington, Edward H  Lodger  M   28  Paper Maker  b Stretford, Lancashire

Reference RG10, 2107, 72, 40
Factory Lane, Ermington, Ivybridge

Partington, James  Head  M  36  Paper-Maker  b Stretford
Partington, Frances  Wife  F  31  b Dewsbury, Yorkshire
Partington, George  Son  M  10  b Stretford
Partington, Elizabeth  Daughter  F  7  b Stretford
Partington, Mary E  Daughter  F  5  b Ivybridge
Partington, John  Son  M  2  b Salford
Partington, Fred  Son  M  4 months  b Ivybridge

[KGarrad]

By 1881, the family looked like this:

Reference RG11, 2179, 55, 11
Tuckenhay, Cornworthy

Partington, John  Head  M  39  Paper Maker  b Stretford
Partington, Eliza  Wife  F  39  b Ivybridge


Reference RG11, 2186, 87, 32
12 Keaton Road, Ermington, Ivybridge

Partington, James  Head  M  46  Paper Maker  b Manchester
Partington, Frances  Wife  F  41  b Yorkshire
Partington, John W  Son  M  12  Scholar  b Manchester
Partington, Fred  Son  M  10  Scholar  b Ivybridge
Partington, Francis J  Son  M  8  Scholar  b Ivybridge
Partington, Fanny  Daughter  F  2  b Ivybridge


Reference RG11, 2189, 120, 1
Harford Road, Harford, Ivybridge

Partington, Edward H  Head  M  38  Paper Maker  b Throstle Nest, Stretford
Partington, Elizabeth E  Wife  F  29  b Yealmpton
Partington, Frank  Son  M  7  b Ivybridge
Partington, Arthur  Son  M  2  b Ivybridge

[Keith Bateman]

Hi KGarrad

Yes that is definately my lot 

I could never at the start find them - I was told when I was at school (is it that long ago )  that people never moverd move than 10 miles away.   

                                      Thanks

                                               The Cheshire Cat

[Keith Bateman]

Yes Francis (with an I ) my mum's dad - how can I remmber that but can not remember what day it is 


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[KGarrad]

I was told when I was at school (is it that long ago )  that people never moverd move than 10 miles away.   

What a load of bol . . . derdash!

My paternal family (Garrad) moved around Suffolk & Essex for generations, then suddenly moved to Dorset, Devon, Swindon, Bath & Somerset within a couple of generations!
My mother's parents moved from Wiltshire and Kent to South Wales (where she was born) and then into North Somerset.

Industrial Revolution and all that.