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From: "Roger Lewis" <>
Subject: Re: Lancs Textile workers to Vermont 1880's
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 20:47:06 -0000


Hi Betty

Many thanks for the information on the US postmark Pawtucket, Rhode island.
This would be the correct town and I have now been able to find it on my
atlas. At last I am able to identify the town where my great aunt was
working.

I don't know when my ancestor, Emily REES, went to Pawtucket, only the date
when she returned to the UK.

I can remember staying at her house in Rochdale during WWII when my families
house in Weymouth was damaged by a bomb. Of course I was only a young lad at
the time, but I remember asking why she had very very thin wrists and her
telling me that she had caught her hands in the mill rollers.

As you would have seen from my original message I am also seeking
information on a Minister J.E. Farrow and his wife Annis, formerly LEWIS,
who emigrated to Brooklyn and then Wilmington, Vermont. Do you know of a web
site for Wilmington, Vermont or where I can look for further information ?

Best Regards

Roger Lewis
Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK


-----Original Message-----
From: Betty A. Pace <>
To: <>
Date: Tuesday, 12 January, 1999 11:32 PM
Subject: Re: Lancs Textile workers to Vermont 1880's

>Could the town on the US post mark be Pawtucket? That is near Providence
>in Rhode Island, our smallest state. I don't know about mills in
>Pawtucket, but New England had a lot of manufacturing. Pawtucket is
>today a small city about thirty-forty miles (estimated) southwest of
>Boston, Mass. Rhode Island is sandwiched between Massachusetts and
>Connecticut if you can find a US map nearby.
>
>Betty Pace -- US
>On Tue, 12 Jan 1999 17:23:31 -0000 "Roger Lewis" <>
>writes:
>>Hi Pat
>>
>>Yes I have a little information about my ancestors.
>>
>>Emily REES, a daughter of my great grandfather on my mother's side,
>>William
>>REES, Rochdale, Lancs, went to work in America, but I only have a
>>little
>>information from two old letters which I have recently come across.
>>
>>>From one of the letters, it seems that she was working in a mill
>>minding 10
>>looms. I don't know where she was working but in a second letter she
>>is
>>writing to say that she is sailing back from America on the 14th July
>>(no
>>date in the letter but I think it was probably 1904 as the other
>>letter was
>>dated 21st January 1904) on a boat called CYMRIC from Boston to
>>Liverpool.
>>She was coming along with a young woman living in Mosley and her fare
>>was 15
>>dollars, which she says is "trip price".
>>
>>I also have a photocopy of the envelope from America but the postmark
>>is not
>>very clear, I believe the town/city is Pawtuck and the year appears to
>>be
>>1904.
>>
>>
>>
>
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