Comments on: The Spitalfields Weaver https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/01/03/the-spitalfields-weaver/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Mon, 20 Jul 2020 18:58:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Jackie Callan (Cailleu) https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/01/03/the-spitalfields-weaver/#comment-1346572 Mon, 20 Jul 2020 18:58:14 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=142057#comment-1346572 Hi. Thank for the detailed information and wonderful illustrations. I am related to the Holford family. They married into mine (Callieau), eventually anglicised to Callan.

]]> By: Wayne Cook https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/01/03/the-spitalfields-weaver/#comment-1080400 Sat, 20 Feb 2016 23:48:00 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=142057#comment-1080400 As some of my ancestors were weavers in Spitalfields I was very excited when I was shown this website.
One of my ancestors, Leonard Provest was born in Christchurch, Spitalfields in 1756, and he was admitted Freeman of the City of London in 1777.

]]> By: Peter Holford https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/01/03/the-spitalfields-weaver/#comment-1067548 Tue, 05 Jan 2016 18:01:23 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=142057#comment-1067548 Many thanks for this blog GA. With my Holford ancestors being Spitalfields weavers articles like this help to build a picture of their lives. My gg-grandfather, George Holford, was the last in our family (died 1869) after which all the men turned to making pianos. Having said that my great-aunt was still working in the silk industry as a winder in 1901 – one of the last?

]]> By: Bob Davenport https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/01/03/the-spitalfields-weaver/#comment-1066586 Sun, 03 Jan 2016 08:35:22 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=142057#comment-1066586 For more about the illustrator Kenny Meadows himself, see https://studiedmonuments.wordpress.com/2015/11/10/kenny-meadows-illustrator/

Bob D.

]]> By: John Barrett Bristol https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/01/03/the-spitalfields-weaver/#comment-1066575 Sun, 03 Jan 2016 07:48:47 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=142057#comment-1066575 His trade and life is described is detail: now that is just wonderful. We are there with him.

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