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From: "Ben Reeve" <>
Subject: Re: Bleaching Fields
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 1998 09:58:55 +0100

Hi Folks,

My mother-in-law (whom I address as 'Boss', and is rarely wrong :>)) syas
that there may be two interpretations:
1. In areas where Linen is made the colour of the cloth was naturally cream,
until it had been spread on the adjacent fields to 'bleach' in the sun.
2. She also spreads any cloth (even including small carpets and rugs) on the
dew-sodden lawn on a fine morning to remove stains. I can't explain how it
works, but it does, but than she 'charms warts too! Now you know why I call
her boss!

Ben

Researching REEVE(S)/REVE in Norfolk,
BUTCHER in Oxfordshire, JOHNSON in the
Potteries and CLARK in Notts/Lincs
-----Original Message-----
From: Barbara & Ken Stride <>
To: <>
Date: 04 July 1998 08:20
Subject: Bleaching Fields

>Hi All you lovely people!
>
>Can anyone tell us what bleaching fields are an ancestor of some friends
>here with us tonight, had a family member transported to Australia from
>England because he stole from the "Bleaching Fields"
>
>Any help please would be appreciated.
>--
>Regards,
>
>Barbara & Ken Stride
>Whangarei, Northland, New Zealand.
>E.Mail <.>
>Researching: AUSTIN/EN, CATCHPOLE, COLLEN/IN, COCKSEDGE
>HOWLETT, MANN, in Suffolk & Cambridge.
>BUSH, in Surrey & Essex, & London.
>FLEXMAN, PORTER, VICKERS, NORTH, HICKMAN, LUGG all
>of Surrey, & Middlesex, London
>

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