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Date Posted: 16:45:44 06/04/03 Wed
Author: Bob Barnes
Subject: Re: Thomas Rowbotham, Macclesfield, Butcher, c1819
In reply to: Mike Rowbotham 's message, "Re: Thomas Rowbotham, Macclesfield, Butcher, c1819" on 22:02:56 05/28/03 Wed

>Hi Bob,
>I do note in the records of the website is an entry
>for Thomas Rowbotham baptised 15th November 1818 at St
>Michael's in Macclesfield, son of Thomas a collier and
>Ann Rowbotham of Hurdsfield

Dear Mike
I did see that entry and it is the only one that might fit. However, Thomas's marriage certificate clearly states his father's occupation as "cotton spinner" which seems a long way removed from collier. Unless of course one of the records has mis-transcribed cotton or collier. Something not impossible in longhand!

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[> [> [> Re: Thomas Rowbotham, Macclesfield, Butcher, c1819 -- Mike Rowbotham, 21:13:35 06/04/03 Wed

Dear Mike
>I did see that entry and it is the only one that might
>fit. However, Thomas's marriage certificate clearly
>states his father's occupation as "cotton spinner"
>which seems a long way removed from collier. Unless of
>course one of the records has mis-transcribed cotton
>or collier. Something not impossible in longhand!

Dear Bob,
Just a thought!
From birth to marriage is a relatively long time, being a collier can only be imagined as a difficult job then as it is now, and becoming harder as the years went by. It would have become more appealing to become a cotton spinner in an area where silk and cotton spinning jobs would have been plentiful and money regular.
An injury may have forced him to change.

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