My 4Xgreat-aunt, Quaker Mary Lewin, was a lacemaker at Ellington, Huntingdonshire at the time of her marriage in 1835. Her brother's wife Charlotte was also a lacemaker at the time of her marriage.
I bought these bobbins and pieces of lace in Huntingdon near the River Great Ouse. One style of lace edging with a wavy trail going through it was known as the 'great river', after the river Ouse, and was produced in many different variations as each village would have its own version.
UK census figures for laceworkers show the decline in this home industry:
1851 26,670
1891 3,376.
Wooden lace bobbins from Huntingdonshire
Contributed by K Chessell
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