my grandmom also worked in Coats mill in paisley ! ----- Original Message ----- From: "alistair Stevenson" <alijohn@optusnet.com.au> To: <SCT-RENFREW-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 6:19 PM Subject: Re: [Renfrew] Coats & Clarks > My mother worked as young girl at the Coats mill in Paisley and we're now > living in Australia. Sandy (Wagga x 2) > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ken Mathieson" <ken@kenmath.free-online.co.uk> > To: <SCT-RENFREW-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 8:16 AM > Subject: Re: [Renfrew] Coats & Clarks > > >> Hi Nuala, >> >> You're spot on there about St Petersburg. Coats had the biggest thread > mill >> in the world there from the late 19th century up till the time of the >> Russian Revolution, when it was nationalised without compensation. I > vaguely >> remember a complicated story about all the title deeds, trade marks etc >> being spirited out of Russia by the Scottish managers in order to prove >> ownership in the event of the Revolution failing. Ironically, after >> Perestroika, the Russians asked Coats to provide technical expertise in >> modernising their thread industry, and (again vaguely remembered) I think >> some sort of a joint venture or partnership was formed, so Coats got back >> into the Russian market after all those years. >> >> In the late 1920s or early 30s, Coats also bought a German thread group, > Mez >> AG of Freiburg im Breisgau, and with it came subsidiaries in Austria, >> Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Yugoslavia and Romania, to add to their >> existing operations in other European, Asian, North and South American >> countries, so by the late 1930s they were truly a global group, and a >> very >> successful one at that. When they set up a new factory it was common >> practice to send a team of experts in every aspect of thread > manufacturing, >> marketing, administration etc to set up the operation train local staff, > and >> run the company. As a result, Paisley families dispersed all across the >> globe, so don't be surprised at Scottish connections in the unlikeliest >> places. >> >> Regards >> >> Ken Mathieson >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Nuala Cockburn" <nualacockburn@blueyonder.co.uk> >> To: <SCT-RENFREW-L@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 7:23 PM >> Subject: Re: [Renfrew] Coats & Clarks >> >> >> > Another place Coats set up factories was St. Petersberg in Russia. My >> > husband's adopted great aunt was sent there by the firm to teach the >> Russian >> > girls in the cotton mill in the latter part of the 19th Century. She > then >> > became a governess in the family of the Grand Duke of Mecklenberg > Strelitz >> > where she remained until her death in 1908, she was buried in the >> > family >> > cemetery there. >> > >> > Nuala >> > >> > ----- Original Message ----- >> > From: "Roxanne Neel" <roxanne4mastiffs@verizon.net> >> > To: <SCT-RENFREW-L@rootsweb.com> >> > Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 6:15 PM >> > Subject: Re: [Renfrew] Coats & Clarks >> > >> > >> > > Ken ~ Oh my goodness, I still have spools of Coats & Clarks thread > from >> > > years ago when I used to sew! I assumed it was made in America... >> > > Thank you for the information! >> > > Roxanne Neel >> > > Cedarpines Park, California, USA >> > > >> > > >> > > Ken Mathieson wrote: >> > > >> > >>Hi Heather, >> > >> >> > >>The connection between Paisley and Guadalajara is that Paisley was > once >> > >>the >> > >>World's leading town for the manufacture of sewing thread. There were > 2 >> > >>huge >> > >>family businesses, the Clarks and the Coats, which eventually merged > as >> > >>United Thread Mills Ltd, a subsidiary of J & P Coats Ltd, which is >> > >>now >> > >>part >> > >>of the Coats Viyella Tootal group. By the end of the 19th century, > lots >> of >> > >>countries were erecting tariff barriers to limit imports and foster >> local >> > >>industry. Mexico was one such, and one of the Paisley companies set >> > >>up > a >> > >>mill there (I'm not sure which), but in the 1960s & 70s when I worked >> for >> > >>Coats, they had a mill in Guadalajara and another in Mexico City, as >> well >> > >>as >> > >>in countless other places around the world. Some googling should >> > >>yield >> > >>further info. >> > >> >> > >>I hope this helps, >> > >> >> > >>Ken Mathieson, >> > >>Uddingston SCT >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >>----- Original Message ----- >> > >>From: "Mariposa Obsidian" <ehecatl2012@yahoo.com> >> > >>To: <SCT-RENFREW-L@rootsweb.com> >> > >>Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 8:28 PM >> > >>Subject: Re: [Renfrew] Muir, jamison, Orr >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >>>Hi: Could someone place look ont the early census for me (Paisley) > and >> > >>> >> > >>see if you can find the families of: >> > >> >> > >>> Joseph Johnston (b. 1832 in Paisley, Scotland) >> > >>> Jean Young (b. 1838 in Paisley, Scotland). >> > >>> >> > >>> They both died in 1896 in Guadalajara Mexico. >> > >>> >> > >>> I am trying to research the family and find out how they ended up > in >> > >>> >> > >>Guadalajara of all places! >> > >> >> > >>> Thanks! >> > >>> >> > >>> Heather Hess nee Wilson >> > >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> >> > >>>Cualli Tonalli! >> > >>>Mariposita Obsidiana, P.A. >> > >>> >> > >>>http://www.thelensflare.com/u_mariposa.php >> > >>>http://mariposadreaming.blogspot.com/ >> > >>> >> > >>>"I am an amateur and I intend to stay that way for the rest of my >> > >>>life." - >> > >>> >> > >>Andre Kertesz, Hungary, 1930 >> > >> >> > >>>--------------------------------- >> > >>>Yahoo! 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My Grandmother, some of her sisters and her Father all worked in the Coats mill. I am wondering if their might be any records of the employees available somewhere. Gail