Not helping much re your mystery and you may have come across this site before - it is interesting and helps confirm some of your family links - Ben Woollatt was Phoebe's brother
http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/hucknall1909/hucknall18.htm#19thcentury Nottinghamshire History - J H Beardsmore, The History of Hucknall Torkard, (1909)
http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/hucknall1909/hucknall26.htm.
About the year 1852 (said the late Mr. Andrew Radford) the Shetland hosiery industry sprang up, and gradually gave employment to the men who had been previously engaged in spider-work stockings and gloves. Mr. Radford told the writer that Mr. James Wood, of Nottingham, bought a knitted fall in the Shetlands and asked Mr. Robert Widdowson, postmaster and stocking-maker, if he could not make something similar on a frame. Mr. Widdowson submitted the task to Messrs.
Wm. and Thomas Farrands, who were aided by Mr.
Ben Woollatt, in adapting a frame for this class of work, and very soon Messrs. William Barker, William Calladine, Michael Wilkinson, Henry Rhodes, Joseph Stainforth, Thomas Dawson, and Reuben Cale were engaged in this class of manufacture.
A little more than 30 years ago many journeymen were tempted by the boom in this trade to set up as master hosiers, but the period of depression which supervened reduced their numbers, so that to-day the leading firms in this industry are Messrs. H. and I. Rhodes,
Wm. Woollatt, Wm. J. Calladine, and John Buck, and the principal foreign markets for their produce have been America, Russia, France, and Spain.
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mention of
Frank Farrands (of the cricketing fame)
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http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/hucknall1909/hucknall24.htmhere is a list of the instrumentalists of seventy years ago: — Bassoons, Ben Kerry and Joseph Hutchinson; Clarionette, Robert Widdowson; Bass Fiddle, George Starr; Fiddles, Luke Wagg and Richard White; Ophecleide, John Brown; Trombone, James Widdowson; The Serpent (a bass instrument), Mr. Dabill. The singers were Elizabeth Fell, Elizabeth Allen, Ann Brown, Leah Hankin, Elizabeth and Mary Mellows, Thomas Brown,
Thomas Farrands, Samuel Barnett, John Wagstaffe, and John Cutts
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http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/articles/mellorsarticles/basford6.htmRobert Mellors, An address to the young folks of Stapleford, 1906.
MILNES FARRAND, a member of an old Basford family of bleachers, and afterwards a soap manufacturer at Whitemoor, deserves to be remembered. He voluntarily played the organ in the parish church 42 years, and provided the music for the use of the choir at his own cost. He died in 1906, aged 77.
Milnes Farrand left a Will dated 1907
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