Weavers and Cotton Dressers

[toolelips]

Good morning to the list. Is there a website that I could learn more about these occupations and the places that ancestors may have worked in the early 1800's?

Thanks,
Margaret

[Gay J Oliver]

Here are some very good websites with lots of history of the cotton trade However, there were so very many cotton mills at this period of history, that it is virtually impossible to know which ones your ancestors worked in. Also weaving did not become a mechanised process until at the very earliest the 1820s, so weavers before this date were working on hand looms, usually in their own homes. Often a group of weavers were working for an employer with thread that had been spun in one of his factories

www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ Social and Industrial history in one website, including Child Labour, Slavery, the Textile Trade.

www.spinningtheweb.org.uk/ Spinning the Web - The story of the Cotton Industry.

www.cottontimes.co.uk/index.html Cotton Times
- History's great upheaval.

[toolelips]

Thank you Gay. I had actually found the website "Cotton Times" earlier today and it did have a lot of information about what it was like being in that trade during the early 1800's. Not too lucrative to say the least. I will check out the other two sites you mentioned above.

Thanks,
Margaret