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exotic sounding jobs in the cotton and woollen industries, but the reality would probably have been more mundane. Nevertheless, the job labels of ‘grender cardroom’, ‘drawer in frame teneter cotton’, ‘roving frame tenter cotton’, ‘back tenter cotton’, ‘billy piecer woollen’ provide a window to another world which has been almost totally lost.
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William (1819-?) and Margaret (1824-?) Soothill
Entries in the 1861 census
Name
Sex/ Relationshi p
Age
Occupation
Where born
Current address
William
H/H
41
Cotton Twist Packer
Cotton Mill
Chorley, Lancashire
Eaves Lane, Chorley
Margaret
Wife
35
n/s
Chorley, Lancashire
Sarah E
Daughter
13
Cotton weaver
Chorley, Lancashire
Ann
Daughter
10
Scholar
Bolton, Lancashire
William
Son
6
Scholar
Chorley, Lancashire
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