Hi I was always told the name came from the term ' doff yer cockers' which was to cool your feet in the water after a days work. Stupid as this sounds the sign on the Doffcocker Inn depicts just this! Jonathan. >From: Dellcrom@aol.com >Reply-To: ENG-LAN-BOLTON-L@rootsweb.com >To: ENG-LAN-BOLTON-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [ENG-LAN-BOLTON] doffcockers >Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 08:58:26 EDT > > >Martin Briscoe wrote that Benjamin DOBSON house was already called >Doffcockers by the previous owner (WHITAKER) who also owned a mill by the >same name. >So why did he call it this? > >from >_http://www.thefreedictionary.com_ (http://www.thefreedictionary.com) >DoffŽer > > n. 1. (Mach.) A revolving cylinder, or a vibrating bar, with teeth, in >a >carding machine, which doffs, or strips off, the fiber from the cards. >2. >(Spinning) A worker who replaces full bobbins by empty ones on the >throstle or >ring frames. > > > >Derek Crompton >London South- East > > >==== ENG-LAN-BOLTON Mailing List ==== >To unsubscribe from this list, send the command "unsubscribe" to >ENG-LAN-BOLTON-L-request@rootsweb.com (if in mail mode) or >ENG-LAN-BOLTON-D-request@rootsweb.com (if in digest mode.) > >============================== >Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the >last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: >http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >