Hi Barbara Where are your Nixons from? Sue Parker ======================================== Message date : May 11 2005, 10:47 PM From : ENG-STS-THE-POTTERIES-D-request@rootsweb.com To : ENG-STS-THE-POTTERIES-D@rootsweb.com Copy to : Subject : ENG-STS-THE-POTTERIES-D Digest V05 #82 Hello List, I have been a way from the list for some time, I would like to repost my interests, Cooper, Mellor, Nixon, Parr, Walton, I would be most interested to here from anyone with connections are information on the above names Thanks very much I appreciate any help, Regards, Barbara. -- Whatever you Wanadoo: http://www.wanadoo.co.uk/time/ This email has been checked for most known viruses - find out more at: http://www.wanadoo.co.uk/help/id/7098.htm ______________________________ -- Whatever you Wanadoo: http://www.wanadoo.co.uk/time/ This email has been checked for most known viruses - find out more at: http://www.wanadoo.co.uk/help/id/7098.htm

Would anyone know what was meant by the description "marble maker" when listed as the products against a potter in the 1850s and 1860s trade directories of the Potteries please? It didn't mean just "marbles" as in toys did it? Thanks in anticipation, Veronica