24 June 1679: The world’s oldest wool carders?
Oliver Heywood. 1881. The Rev. Oliver Heywood, B.A., 1630-1702, Vol. 2/4. Ed. J. Horsfall Turner. Brighouse: A.B. Bayes. Get it:
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Henry Bamford of Deaf Mills aged 94, his wife aged 104 were both carding out of doors June 24, 1679.
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Abbreviations:
- ER: East Riding
- GM: Greater Manchester
- NR: North Riding
- NY: North Yorkshire
- SY: South Yorkshire
- WR: West Riding
- WY: West Yorkshire
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Henry Bamford of Deaf Mills aged 94, his wife aged 104 were both carding out of doors June 24, 1679.
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· - Heywood, Oliver (1630-1702) (34), Bolton-born nonconformist minister and diarist, active in the West Riding, resident at Northowram, ejected for his beliefs ·
- Longevity claims (1) ·
- Nonconformism (47) ·
- Presbyterianism (20) ·
- Protestantism (25) ·
- Wool (28) ·
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