RE: [lace] Bedfordshire lacemakers

2006-04-04 Thread Ina le Bas
Dear Brenda, Thank you for your reply about lacemakers in Scotland. I have just spent about three hours on the computer looking up the site and links you gave me. I haven't made a break-through but it has been most interesting - watch this space if I do! Ina >From near Byron Bay, Australia - To

Re: [lace] Bedfordshire lacemakers

2006-04-04 Thread Brenda Paternoster
On 4 Apr 2006, at 05:47, Ina le Bas wrote: I have a similar story to you - my Great grandmother made lace but she was born in Kirkmabreck, Scotland about 1835 and at the time of the 1851 census she was listed as a scholar aged 16. I would dearly like to know if she made lace as a living or j

RE: [lace] Bedfordshire lacemakers

2006-04-03 Thread Ina le Bas
Dear Liz, I have a similar story to you - my Great grandmother made lace but she was born in Kirkmabreck, Scotland about 1835 and at the time of the 1851 census she was listed as a scholar aged 16. I would dearly like to know if she made lace as a living or just indulged as we do. Please, is ther

[lace] Bedfordshire lacemakers

2006-04-03 Thread Elizabeth Ligeti
What an interesting list of Lacemakers names, dates, etc. However, I could not see my Great Grandmother's name there. Her surname was Parrott. Later she married into the Sanders family. She was born in the late 1850's I guess, as Grandma was 20 in 1899. I have a bobbin with her name on and th