I do not know how relevant this is, but in one line of my ancestors there were flax dressers, and I was surprised how much they seemed to move about. James Boult (or Bolt) was born in Whitby. The place and date of his first marriage is unknown (to Margaret, and it must have been in about 1816, when Margaret was about 20), but the first child was born in Whitby, so I suppose they lived there. However, two sons were then born (1821 & 1823) in Knaresborough. Then there were daughters born, one in Whitby and then one in Stokesley; Margaret died in Stokesley in 1828, probably soon after the birth of the last child. James remarried, in Masham, even though his bride, Ann Bowes, came from Great Ayton. After that the family lived in Stokesley or Hutton Rudby. Ann also seems to have been in the flax/linen industry, and her sister, and a daughter, were also recorded in 1851 as working in the linen trade - flax dressing and weaving - in Osmotherley, This probably does not help your family line, but may cast some light on the industry. Also Trade Directories of the early 1800s seem to list flax dressing as a major industry - how much of this was to supply the shipping industry? Brian Mulhall PS - any information on the James Boult-Margaret marriage above would be greatly appreciated. Does anybody know anything about weavers(linen) in the Hampsthaite area. My family the Hutchinson`s lived there from the C1600 but all had left by the 1841 census My Hutchinson`s moved first to Bury in C1808 & then to Leeds. > > Does anybody have any family tree who did something similar. > > Dorothy Mary > > > --------------------------------- > New Yahoo! Mail is the ultimate force in competitive emailing. Find > out more at the Yahoo! Mail Championships. Plus: play games and win > prizes. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-NORTH-YORKS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >