This has opened up another area of investigation; this time concerning the town of Blackburn. Doing my usual forage around the internet; I came across an area called Mill Hill. The area is still there but has changed beyond recognition.
As its' name suggests it was a factory area.
The cotton industry began in England in 1774 when Parliament reduced duty on cotton fabrics from sixpence to threepence a yard. Suddenly, there was an incentive to produce cotton fabric (sixpence a yard was prohibitive). Manufacture in the Blackburn area is disputed; some claim 1774 and others 1776.
Mill Hill became a calico printing area (1794). Apparently, Mill Hill was in the township of Livesey.
John Abbott in the 1881 England Census was a lodger in
20 Mill Hill A Common Lodging House
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Name
|
Age
|
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John Wilkinson
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47
|
|
Margaret Wilkinson
|
32
|
|
Emily Ann Wilkinson
|
2
|
|
Cornelius Driscoll
|
50
|
|
Richard Ward
|
44
|
|
Richard Dickinson
|
31
|
|
Elizabeth Dickinson
|
39
|
|
William Heaton
|
40
|
|
Henry Heys
|
36
|
|
Joseph Pickup
|
48
|
|
William Ashworth
|
39
|
|
John Marsden
|
46
|
|
James Graham
|
28
|
|
William H. Harwood
|
28
|
|
John Dunn
|
26
|
|
Robert Scholes
|
50
|
|
John Abbott
|
30
|
|
Jonathan Wade
|
36
|
|
John Cheetham
|
50
|
|
John Grimshaw
|
36
|
|
W. Edward Briggs
|
26
|
|
Henry Richardson
|
33
|
|
Andrew Grimshaw
|
36
|
|
Mark Rawsthorne
|
40
|
|
Jeremiah Riley
|
68
|
|
Bridget Lonsdale
|
35
|
|
Margaret Parkinson
|
40
|
What stunned me at first was the number of people!
Time to do more research...
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