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From: " Jill." <>
Subject: Re: a missing Bowis
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 09:51:21 +0100
References: <1120171154.6052.0@despina.uk.clara.net> <1120241980.378093.128840@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <em+BPKAKTcxCFwaC@varneys.demon.co.uk>


Eve McLaughlin wrote:
> In article <>,
> Daniel Morgan <> writes
>> Jill wrote:
>>> I cannot find Thomas Bowis in 1891
>>> The rest of his family are
>>> 14 Brailsford road Lenton Nottingham
>>
>> John Townsend wrote:
>>> Try 7 Wellington Terace, Radford, Nottingham.
>>> It is the address given for a Thomas Bowis in Kelly's Directory of
>>> Notts., 1895.
>>
>> But he's not listed in Wright's Directory of Nottingham, 1894-95,
>> which is online at www.historicaldirectories.org , so maybe he
>> wasn't there yet by 1891.
>
> A number of lacemen spent a few years in France, training French
> factories to compete with English ones. Marguerite Audin and Elizabeth
> Simpson did collect many of their names, around 30 years ago. I
> don';t know if Elizabeth still has a copy (she may have a problem
> accessing it, if so, as she has eye trouble)

I will show my ignorance painfully I am aware but who are these ladies?
What sort of laceman would have gone / been sent abroad ?

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Regards
Jill Bowis

Surnames search www.bowis.co.uk
Senior, Ashworth, Pulman, Crossland, Ambler, Neutkens
Bowis, Lister, Vaughn, Palin, Stewart, Newlove, Yabbicom,
Stewart [Paisley], MacKinlay, Watt, Green, Smith
Mair, Brown, Lawrie, Sutherland, Rainey, Hunter
Sumner, Moss, Haughton, Hampson, Owen,

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