Steve Thanks for your sugestion, I have already visited the Stoke Archives in Hanley Library and they were equally baffled. Nothing in any of the usual places, ie maps, directories, etc. I just wondered whether anybody else had come across this. Kevin ---- Original message ---- >Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 20:54:11 +0100 >From: "Steve Stutcinskas" <Steve@Stutcinskas.freeserve.co.uk> >Subject: RE: [Pots] Location of The Soap Works? >To: ENG-STS-THE-POTTERIES-L@rootsweb.com > >Kevin - try contacting the Hanley Archive > >By telephone: (+44) 01782-238420 > >By fax: (+44) 01782-238499 > >By email: stoke.archives@stoke.gov.uk > > >Steve > >-----Original Message----- >From: Kevin [mailto:kevinhall@beeb.net] >Sent: 10 August 2005 17:35 >To: ENG-STS-THE-POTTERIES-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [Pots] Location of The Soap Works? > >Hello >I am new to the list so bear with me. >In a 1937 cutting from The Sentinel, James BENTLEY b.1840 >(yes, he really was 97) described his birthplace as being in >Hartshill, near "the soapworks". >I have searched the 1841 census and maps of the time but >cannot find such a facility. James's 1841 entry puts him >roughly half way up Hartshill Road. His birth cert shows him >as being born in Hartshill, and his mother is described >as "an inmate". >I would be grateful for any ideas as to what and where this >soapworks might have been. > >Thanks. > >Kevin Hall > > >==== ENG-STS-THE-POTTERIES Mailing List ==== >The List for the Pottery Towns of the Ancient County of Staffordshire > > >-- >Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. >Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.0/63 - Release Date: >03/08/2005 > > >-- >No virus found in this outgoing message. >Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.7/70 - Release Date: >11/08/2005 > > > >==== ENG-STS-THE-POTTERIES Mailing List ==== >The List for the Pottery Towns of the Ancient County of Staffordshire >