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[Mike in Cumbria]

Thank You all.
I shall commit to your superior Knowledge
Now I just have to find her Birth and how she ended up in Dundee of all places.
Many Thanks.
Yours Aye
BruceL

They were both weaving towns, so that may be a link

[antiquesam]

My years living in Manchester and Salford led me to think Manchester didn't produce any cotton products so much as dealt in them with production taking place in the towns around it. Dundee,on the other hand, was filled with jute mills taking in a large number of labour from elsewhere. On the other hand Manchester was the northern centre of news publishing and Dundee the home of Thomson publishing empire.

[Mike in Cumbria]

My years living in Manchester and Salford led me to think Manchester didn't produce any cotton products so much as dealt in them with production taking place in the towns around it.

There were 108 cotton mills in Manchaster (aka Cottonopolis) by the mid 1800s

[antiquesam]

As I thought after a peak in the 1850's the mills declined in Manchester and spread out to the towns around leaving Manchester as the dealing centre, hence Cottonopolis.

[manukarik]

Manchester is the term used for cotton goods in many European languages...

[antiquesam]

I can well believe that as Manchester is covered in huge Victorian warehouses, now converted into all sorts of different uses after being very run down when I lived there in the '70s.

[shanreagh]

Manchester is the term used for cotton goods in many European languages...

Yes of course. Manchester/environs also had factories that wove silk. Including jacquard looms.