Jan Silk and ribbon weaving was a major Coventry industry back then, and Cash's survives to this day. http://www.jjcash.co.uk/history.htm also http://www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/features/local-history/a-brief-history-of-cash-s-in-coventry.shtml Neil (Born and raised in Coventry) ----- Original Message ---- From: janice morrissey <janmorr@tadaust.org.au> To: WARWICK@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, 24 July, 2007 8:22:19 AM Subject: [WAR] re herps erps Hi list Just looking through some census in Coventry and noticed there a lot of ribbon weavers and silk winders can anyone tell me about the industry there back in the 1800's or steer me to a good site to where the life and times of that era may be found.Thank you. Jan Australia ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WARWICK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message