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umbrella making in Millhouse Green
« on: Friday 15 July 11 21:22 BST (UK) »
Anyone know anything about the history of umbrella making in Millhouse Green, Penistone?

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Re: umbrella making in Millhouse Green
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 16 July 11 16:38 BST (UK) »
Hi

A firm called Wm Hoyland had a factory which made just the frames, they employed  local people also working from home assembling the parts. the factory has gone and replaced with a housing estate
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Woolley, Mitchell, Sidebottom, Taylor, Hague, Derbyshire & Yorkshire. Fulton Ireland/Yorkshire.
Batey, McDermott, Hetherington, Durham & Canada

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Re: umbrella making in Millhouse Green
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 19 July 11 17:45 BST (UK) »
Do you happen to know when the factory first started?

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Re: umbrella making in Millhouse Green
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 19 July 11 18:01 BST (UK) »
Samuel Fox founded Fox Umbrella Frames Ltd in 1842 in Stocksbridge, Sheffield if you google this you will find quite a bit of info about the company
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Lowcock-Greasbrough
Morris-Derbyshire/Greasbrough/Hatfield
Chipp-Isle of wight/Mexborough/Derbyshire
Wallace+Wylie-Derbyshire
Rhoadhouse+Sellars-Greasbrough
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Re: umbrella making in Millhouse Green
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 19 July 11 18:06 BST (UK) »
Hi

William Hoyland started his own company in 1875
Woolley, Mitchell, Sidebottom, Taylor, Hague, Derbyshire & Yorkshire. Fulton Ireland/Yorkshire.
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Re: umbrella making in Millhouse Green
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 19 July 11 18:08 BST (UK) »
ARMITAGE - Penistone, Hoylandswaine
FRETWELL - Thurlstone, Penistone, Hoylandswaine
KILNER - Penistone, Hoylandswaine, Etc

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Re: umbrella making in Millhouse Green
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 19 July 11 18:12 BST (UK) »
Lowcock-Greasbrough
Morris-Derbyshire/Greasbrough/Hatfield
Chipp-Isle of wight/Mexborough/Derbyshire
Wallace+Wylie-Derbyshire
Rhoadhouse+Sellars-Greasbrough
Rickman-Hampshire New Forest+Johnson Hampshire/South Shields
Phillips/Carpenter-Lymington Hampshire
Goodwin+Beaney-Lewisham/Kent
Sayers-London/East Grinstead

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Re: umbrella making in Millhouse Green
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 19 July 11 18:32 BST (UK) »
Thanks, everyone- I'll have a good look at these sources.
I remember being told by my late father that Millhouse Green was famous for umbrella making- he was b. + brought up at Hade Edge/ Harden, Holmfirth but went to Penistone Grammar in the 1930's and worked pre-war as an office boy at Hepworth iron Co., so that area was "on his radar".
I was wondering if there was an umbrella link with my gggrandmother Hannah Swire, umbrella maker of Holmfirth who wed ( maybe because she was claiming to be "of age" but wasn't) in the Wortley/Penistone area in 1860.
Would she have made umbrellas for her clog+ patten-maker father or might she have been an out-worker for the Millhouse Green factory, I wonder? or even employed there.
A minor point in the family's story but I do find the work and education of my forebears really interesting.

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Re: umbrella making in Millhouse Green
« Reply #8 on: Tuesday 19 July 11 18:40 BST (UK) »
funny both my brother in law + my oh work at Hepworth iron co
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Morris-Derbyshire/Greasbrough/Hatfield
Chipp-Isle of wight/Mexborough/Derbyshire
Wallace+Wylie-Derbyshire
Rhoadhouse+Sellars-Greasbrough
Rickman-Hampshire New Forest+Johnson Hampshire/South Shields
Phillips/Carpenter-Lymington Hampshire
Goodwin+Beaney-Lewisham/Kent
Sayers-London/East Grinstead