Thank you everyone for the replies. How interesting. Now I will have to go search & read up on sinkermaker. I was happy that I knew what a FWK was and a "bobbin". Took me about 15 websites before I got a really good one on the wooden bobbin used for lace making. Debbie > From: bnbinns@gmail.com > To: debbie89084@hotmail.com; nottsgen-l@rootsweb.com > Subject: RE: [NTT] Occupation ? > Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 16:45:58 +0000 > > A sinker was an integral part of a stocking frame and a man who made them > was a sinkermaker. > > See these websites for some very good reading, and if you have a chance, > visit the Farmworker's Museum in Ruddington. > > Brian Binns > > > http://www.nottsheritagegateway.org.uk/people/frameworkknitters.htm > > http://www.victorianweb.org/technology/inventors/lee.html > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: nottsgen-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:nottsgen-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On Behalf Of Debbie Lang > Sent: 28 January 2014 16:27 > To: Nottingham History Society > Subject: [NTT] Occupation ? > > Hey Brian, > What is a sinkermaker? > Thank youDebbie > > > From: bnbinns@gmail.com > > To: NOTTSGEN-L@rootsweb.com > > Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 15:43:00 +0000 > > CC: organic22@bigpond.com > > Subject: [NTT] Apprenticeships > > > > I said I would look at the apprenticeship cards at Notts Archives for > > Lisa, a poster to this forum from Australia. I then got an email > > directly for a similar enquiry. But I thought that I would post the > > results of both on the forum too. > > > > > > > > Lisa asked about William CORTHORN, who was a Tailor in Nottingham in > > the early 1800s, but there isn't an apprenticeship record for him. I > > also checked the Burgess records and couldn't find his name there > > either. For those that don't know, Burgesses were, at one time, the > > only people allowed to vote and comprised those who were appointed > > (gentry, clergy etc), those who were sons of Burgesses, and those who > > qualified by virtue of being a time-served tradesman. > > > > I did find others named CORTHEN, CAWTHORNE, and CORTHORN, including a > > few Williams, but these were earlier and were FWKs and sinkermakers. > > > > > > > > I was also asked by Hilary to look for John, Joseph and Jeremiah > > HOLLAND, possibly stonemasons, all from the first half of the 19th > > century but again could not find anyone of that name. ironically I > > found a lot of apprentice Tailors with the surname HOLLAND! > > > > > > > > Glad to help, but sadly no results. > > > > > > > > Brian BInns > > > > > > > > Notts Surname List > > > > http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/notts.html > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > NOTTSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > Notts Surname List > > http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/notts.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NOTTSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >

Typo there. That should have course read Frameworker's Museum not farmworkers!!! Brian Binns -----Original Message----- From: nottsgen-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:nottsgen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Debbie Lang Sent: 29 January 2014 02:18 To: Nottingham History Society Subject: [NTT] Sinkermaker Thank you everyone for the replies. How interesting. Now I will have to go search & read up on sinkermaker. I was happy that I knew what a FWK was and a "bobbin". Took me about 15 websites before I got a really good one on the wooden bobbin used for lace making. Debbie > From: bnbinns@gmail.com > To: debbie89084@hotmail.com; nottsgen-l@rootsweb.com > Subject: RE: [NTT] Occupation ? > Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 16:45:58 +0000 > > A sinker was an integral part of a stocking frame and a man who made > them was a sinkermaker. > > See these websites for some very good reading, and if you have a > chance, visit the Farmworker's Museum in Ruddington. > > Brian Binns > > > http://www.nottsheritagegateway.org.uk/people/frameworkknitters.htm > > http://www.victorianweb.org/technology/inventors/lee.html > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: nottsgen-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:nottsgen-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On Behalf Of Debbie Lang > Sent: 28 January 2014 16:27 > To: Nottingham History Society > Subject: [NTT] Occupation ? > > Hey Brian, > What is a sinkermaker? > Thank youDebbie > > > From: bnbinns@gmail.com > > To: NOTTSGEN-L@rootsweb.com > > Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 15:43:00 +0000 > > CC: organic22@bigpond.com > > Subject: [NTT] Apprenticeships > > > > I said I would look at the apprenticeship cards at Notts Archives > > for Lisa, a poster to this forum from Australia. I then got an email > > directly for a similar enquiry. But I thought that I would post the > > results of both on the forum too. > > > > > > > > Lisa asked about William CORTHORN, who was a Tailor in Nottingham in > > the early 1800s, but there isn't an apprenticeship record for him. I > > also checked the Burgess records and couldn't find his name there > > either. For those that don't know, Burgesses were, at one time, the > > only people allowed to vote and comprised those who were appointed > > (gentry, clergy etc), those who were sons of Burgesses, and those > > who qualified by virtue of being a time-served tradesman. > > > > I did find others named CORTHEN, CAWTHORNE, and CORTHORN, including > > a few Williams, but these were earlier and were FWKs and sinkermakers. > > > > > > > > I was also asked by Hilary to look for John, Joseph and Jeremiah > > HOLLAND, possibly stonemasons, all from the first half of the 19th > > century but again could not find anyone of that name. ironically I > > found a lot of apprentice Tailors with the surname HOLLAND! > > > > > > > > Glad to help, but sadly no results. > > > > > > > > Brian BInns > > > > > > > > Notts Surname List > > > > http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/notts.html > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > NOTTSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > Notts Surname List > > http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/notts.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NOTTSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > Notts Surname List http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/notts.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NOTTSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message