Hull shoemakers trades, late 18th, early 19th c. [Revised]

Richard B Gorrie (rgorrie@uoguelph.ca)
Tue, 28 Feb 1995 08:59:18 -0400

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Moderator's note: Just now I inadvertantly posted the wrong version of this
request. As the following contains further details, I am posting it as
well. My apologies for this duplication. -- Richard Gorrie
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I am completing my doctoral thesis on Martin Butler (1857?-1915) a New
Brunswick (Canada) working-class poet, journalist,and co-founder of the
Fredericton Socialist League. While here in New Brunswick on a Fulbright
from the States I have located much material but want to investigate the
possibility that this working-class intellectual, whose grandfather
emigrated from Hull (England) in 1817, might have had a maternal link to
the earlier "making" of the working class in England.....his grandfather,
Thomas White, was a shoemaker, and emigrated with his family and the
family of Frances Best, another shoemaker. Since I am a newcomer to the
Net, am wondering: does anyone have any ideas as to archival sources that
would be available in Hull pertaining to trades/unions membership/activity
on the part of shoemakers for this period? (DStiles@UNB.CA)