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Old 10-12-10, 14:32
Lindsay Lindsay is offline
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Originally Posted by Sue at the seaside View Post
I think it probably is, but in the census is listed as a labourer but was a silk dyer and is on daughter's marriage cert in 1847 as a Silk dyer.

As I said, think he needs to wait his turn!
Sue, remember the silk industry was declining through the 19th century - a lot of my weavers/dyers in the Shoreditch area became hawkers or labourers about that time.
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