Your guess is as good as mine, Mary Lou. Henry Viii would have been doing what he had to do. Perhaps Mr Hadcocke was a mate of his, property developer or whatever they called them in those days. It was called Kings Mill so I suppose it belonged to him, the King I mean? I never looked up "dialing". Words change - in those days Hudersfield was Hothersfield, Hadcocke could have changed to Hancock. Oh well, back to work. Let me know how you go. John -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Monday, 1 March 2010 8:03 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WRY] Hadcocke Rawe Hi.....maybe Mr. Hadcocke was the builder of the homes rather than the mill owner, or owned the land on which they were built. Did you ever find out what dialing meant?? Fascinating! mary lou In a message dated 2/28/2010 1:19:07 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Hello Mary Lou, I was thinking along those lines myself. I don't know who owned the mill originally but in later years it was part of the Ramsden estate. I know the Spiveys had a cottage near the Kings Mill in the early 1600s. The Spivey "ing" is shown on an early 1600 survey map of Almondbury made by William Senior, "professor of Arithmetic, Geometry, Astronomy, Navigation and Dialing". I have a print of this fascinating map which, I think, was obtained from the Huddersfield Library. "Dialing" had me a bit puzzled as I didn't think they had phones in those days! Oh yes, the ing was next to the millpond!

Hi, There was a Mill on Kings Mill Lane which I actually worked at briefly in 1961. I think it had been owned by someone called Kaye and the daughter married an American Negro who was actually a friend of Paul Robson the Actor/Singer. I rather hoped I would meet him some time. Anyway I worked in the Office. I can remember if I got wages wrong I had to go into the weaving shed to discuss this with the workers who understood how to work out their wages better than I did. You didn't get it wrong very often. Mum told me this marriage caused a bit of a scandal in its day as there were few Negros in Huddersfield and a marriage between one and a white girl was unusual, although Mum said they did have a friend in their own social group called Eddy who was coloured (not sure of which nationality)... I can't remember the American man's name but their children were sent back to America for their education.. I think he was also well educated. Prior to that I often walked on this lane to get to my grandma's at Aspley from Longroyd Bridge. I believe that there was an Orphanage or Mother's and Babies home called St. Catherine's on this lane too as my Aunt was adopted from there in 1923. None of this helps your understanding I suppose but I have just discovered that Learoyds Yard was named after Learoyd who owned a Mill so anything is possible. I can visualise the river side but not the other side where houses or roads might have been. When I think about it trade for cotton might have meant the family travelling to America perhaps (no idea if it was a cotton or wool mill from memory)which could have been when she met her husband.. Even back in 1960 a mixed race marriage was still frowned upon and still unusual.. Jean in S. Australia.. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Spivey" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 9:27 AM Subject: Re: [WRY] Hadcocke Rawe > Your guess is as good as mine, Mary Lou. Henry Viii would have been doing > what he had to do. Perhaps Mr Hadcocke was a mate of his, property > developer > or whatever they called them in those days. It was called Kings Mill so I > suppose it belonged to him, the King I mean? I never looked up "dialing". > Words change - in those days Hudersfield was Hothersfield, Hadcocke could > have changed to Hancock. Oh well, back to work. Let me know how you go. > John > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] > Sent: Monday, 1 March 2010 8:03 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [WRY] Hadcocke Rawe > > Hi.....maybe Mr. Hadcocke was the builder of the homes rather than the > mill > owner, or owned the land on which they were built. > > Did you ever find out what dialing meant?? Fascinating! > > mary lou > > > In a message dated 2/28/2010 1:19:07 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > Hello Mary Lou, > > I was thinking along those lines myself. I don't know who owned the mill > originally but in later years it was part of the Ramsden estate. I know > the > Spiveys had a cottage near the Kings Mill in the early 1600s. The Spivey > "ing" is shown on an early 1600 survey map of Almondbury made by William > Senior, "professor of Arithmetic, Geometry, Astronomy, Navigation and > Dialing". I have a print of this fascinating map which, I think, was > obtained from the Huddersfield Library. "Dialing" had me a bit puzzled as > I > didn't think they had phones in those days! Oh yes, the ing was next to > the > millpond! > > > > > > Some useful websites - > FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ > FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ > Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki > http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ > > ------------------------------- > 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