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From: John Ward <>
Subject: Re: LANCSGEN-D Digest V98 #47 Cotton Industry
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 00:01:50 +1100 (EST)


>I wonder if anyone can tell me anything about the occupations below? I
>couldn't find anything on Tony Langham's or John Hitchcock's occupation
>pages on the web.
>
>Cotton Mill Rober
>Card Worn Hand
This might be card-room hand

>Setter in for Rover Cotton

A "roving" was a sort of sliver (In Lancs a long "i" - sl-eye-ver) or
assembly of untwisted but partly orientated cotton fibres ready for drafting
or drawing, and spinning. I think the roving was what came from the
card-room to the spinning shed. It was fed into tubs to be transported
there. It was like a very loosely made rope made of cotton-wool and the
setter-in might have been the lad who made sure it coiled down neatly in the
tub.
>
>also but not cotton
>Plaster Downer at Print (could be Paint?) Works

"Print Works"is more likely
I an guessing wildly but I can imagine the wet printed cloth being plastered
down on some surface to dry. I remember seeing it hanging in long loops
from bars while being blown by hot air which was the usual method of drying
dyed cloth, but a delicate print might be smudged by that process.

>
>Paul
>
>
John Ward, Sydney NSW. 2, Russell Street, Eastwood, 2122 Australia
Tell: (02)98585997. Email:
Website: http://www.ozemail.com.au/~wardjc.
Searching: WARD (Coventry; Haxey, LIN) with TURR, LAUGHTON & GODFREY.
LORD, ASHWORTH (Rossendale), ARCHER (Kendal, Dent), McGREGOR (Balfron),
ANDERSON, HOTSON, TWEEDALE, WITTON, WILLAN, HOLCROFT, HOLGATE,
GARNETT, DUNCAN, REDMAN, ORMESTON, CAMERON, McDOUGAL, ISHERWOOD,

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