>I re-read emails from the past which told me about the Mill trade in >Newtown Wales where Elizabeth grew up. Hello Jean, My Grandma Elizabeth Evans was also born and raised in Newtown, the 4th in a family of ten. Most of the girls including Grandma were sent from Newtown "into service" in Yorkshire (Halifax in Grandma's case) at the age of about 12 or 13. From then on she never lived in Wales again. My Mum told me she used to go home to Newtown once a year and during that holiday sewed shirts for her brothers - who were not sent away. Was there a Mill trade in Newtown itself? I had thought these girls were sent to the places where there was lots of money from the mills (Yorkshire and Lancashire in particular) and people could afford servants? Thank you for reminding me of all this. Mary (now in WA)