On 2012/01/04 04:47, Jon Oldfield wrote: > At the moment, I am looking at William MUNTON (1771-1824) from Woolpack Lane, > Nottingham. I have him employed as a framework knitter (1814-1821+) and I was > wondering if there was a database or registry that could have the details of > his employment somewhere? It's my belief that most Framework Knitters were in fact Piece Rate workers: paid for the amount of saleable work that they produced. As such they would effectively have been self-employed. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg

Hi, In June 2011 I photographed various buildings in Woolpack Lane in relation to my great-grandparents who resided at Woolpack Lane while getting married at nearby St Marys. Although Woolpack Lane has essentially been rebuilt, I found a building which looks like it could have been constructed for framework knitting and I will be happy to email to you photos I took of it. After all, it might have been where he worked! Regards John Poxon -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Fry Sent: Wednesday, 4 January 2012 6:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTT] Framework Knitter - William MUNTON On 2012/01/04 04:47, Jon Oldfield wrote: > At the moment, I am looking at William MUNTON (1771-1824) from Woolpack Lane, > Nottingham. I have him employed as a framework knitter (1814-1821+) and I was > wondering if there was a database or registry that could have the details of > his employment somewhere? It's my belief that most Framework Knitters were in fact Piece Rate workers: paid for the amount of saleable work that they produced. As such they would effectively have been self-employed. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg Notts Surname List http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/notts.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message