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A History of the County of Oxford
… the failure of a blanket-making enterprise by the glove-makers Pritchett and Webley, Marriott & Sons acquired Worsham … of weavers employed Aug. 1949. Plummer and Early, Blanket Makers, 125; ORO, B1/A/2, s.a. 191415. Plummer and Early, Blanket Makers, 125; Beckinsale, 'Cotswold Woollen Ind.' 360; local …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Lond. & Prov. Dir. (18234); Plummer and Early, Blanket Makers, 92; cf. Oxf. Jnl. 5 July 1802, 1 Jan. 1803. Secker's … p. 8; 17 Mar. 1999, p. 27. Plummer and Early, Blanket Makers, 171; Witney Gaz. 9 Mar. 1978. Aspects of 1619 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1861; Oxf. Jnl. 10 Apr. 1858; Plummer and Early, Blanket Makers, 114. Census, 18711971; below, econ. hist. Witney Gaz. … 1578; VCH Oxon. xii. 48, 182; Plummer and Early, Blanket Makers, 34. Compton, Oxf. Canal, 11718; below. Select Cttee … Witney (1915): copy in COS. Plummer and Early, Blanket Makers, 1213, 1516; ORO, Cal. QS, i, f. 51b; DoE, Revised …
A History of the County of Oxford
… dyers, coal merchants, and farmers rather than blanket makers. 109 Other developments were apparently undertaken by … life was increasingly dominated by the principal blanket-makers, by prosperous tradesmen and retailers such as the … health). For the Chubbs, Plummer and Early, Blanket Makers, fam. tree facing p. 20. e.g. No. 2 Leys Villas: PRO, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… from 1795, members of the Dolley family, local blanket-makers, by 1818 Charles Henderson, bailiff of Witney and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… included prosperous clothiers, master weavers, blanket-makers, fullers, maltsters, and other leading tradesmen. 14 … included several prominent Witney clothiers, blanket-makers, drapers, and other tradesmen, at least one of whom … ibid. MS Wills Oxon. 8/4/34; Plummer and Early, Blanket Makers, 1213, 23; Plummer, Witney Blanket Ind. 19, 132, 140, …
A History of the County of Essex
… employed as ropemakers, 5 as twinespinners, and 6 as sail- makers. A coalyard was recorded in 1722, and there were 2 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… from a fulling mill to a paper mill, attracting paper-makers to the village. 64 Otherwise the recorded occupations, … The parish registers record 9 or 10 millwrights, 7 paper-makers, and 3 printers between 1815 and 1840, and several of … corn and paper mills to a succession of millers and paper-makers. John Beckford, a local man, was tenant in 1708. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… established as one of the country's leading wrought iron makers, its products including bar, flat, cable, rivet, and …