Suggested resources other than censuses. Good luck.
- Andy Alston’s Repository www.andrewalston.co.uk/cottonindustryjobs.html
- Local archives, CROs/Mechanic Institutes – local
- Court records
- Unions/apprenticeship records
- Cotton
Famine (1861-1865); records includes
- CROs – sewing schools
- Minutes for the relief committees
- Other relief work – including for men
- Directories and trade directories
- Bankruptcy courts; The London Gazette etc www.thegazette.co.uk
- Newspapers, BNA
- Quarry Bank Mill, Styal, Cheshire
- Family History Societies
1842 Mines Act and records online
- The UK Commissioners Report of Children’s Employment, 1842 (877 pages)
- https://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=34775
- Includes case studies (names and locations) and witness statements from Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland.
