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February 2020
Change of Venue Convenors Comment
What will 2020 bring for you? Hopefully some
good researching opportunities and good
friendships within the genealogy group. If you
Same time different place are using DNA as a tool, maybe you will find
some ‘new, living relatives’
Please be aware that as from our 10th March
meeting we will be meeting in the old Borough Your committee have already had their first
council building on the corner of Wesley and meeting of the year and as always if you have
Edinburgh Streets. any ideas for activities, speakers, research
activities, ideas for creating resources etc
For the foreseeable future we will be meeting please let us know. We currently have our
in the room to the left as you enter through the cemetery walk project nearing completion.
main doors. The response has been excellent, and it is
Parking is available in the Farmers building or highly likely we will run two walks on March 7th.
in the Library/Town Hall carpark. Our DNA group has met for the first time this
year and welcomes enquiries and attendance
on the second Tuesday evening – contact
Sheryn for more details. This method of
researching and overcoming brick walls
certainly seems to be creating a lot of interest.
Changes are happening at Franklin: The Centre,
and our usual room will no longer be available
as Auckland Council staff are relocating there.
We will evaluate the merits of the room at the
old Borough Building (Plunket) that we are
There will be a guest speaker for the March using for March and will welcome your
meeting; Brent Fernandez will talk about the feedback.
families of “The Northern Wairoa” with a focus Let’s hope we get a bit of rain soon,
on those connected to Glinks Gully.
Don’t forget
Regards
Heather
Same time different place
OBITUARY DNA Users group
Gregson Ian (Greg) ASPINALL The DNA interest group had a good meeting on
Tuesday evening (Feb 11). There was a lot of
discussion around the pros and cons of
uploading DNA files to MyHeritage vs. using
their testing kit, and whether to have a
subscription or not.
If you are keen on combining DNA and a
holiday, check out this event in Australia next
year:
Family History Down Under, Sunshine Coast
Queensland, 22-26 March 2021
Greg passed away on 27 January 2010 aged 89. https://www.facebook.com/groups/FamilyHis
toryDownUnder/
Greg was a long-time genealogist (NZSG https://www.familyhistorydownunder.com/
Member No. 2893) and joined our branch
following his retirement from teaching. He Our next meeting will be March 10, at 7pm.
joined the committee in 1994 and became Please arrive around 6:45 to avoid being locked
Convenor in 1997, a position he held until out. We will be discussing how to use the
2003. From 1998 until 2011 he managed our WATO tool for experimenting with possible
School Records Project, co-ordinating the relationships within a family.
transcribing team and, with Stan Jones, https://dnapainter.com/help/wato-faq
managed the checking process and forwarded
the completed transcriptions for inclusion in
the national School Records database. When
we were bequeathed the original Franklin
Casual Thursday 20 Feb
Pioneer Register, originally collected by the
Franklin Historical Society, Greg transcribed Our casual meeting in the library this month
the original sheets into the current format. was very low key with only three members
present. However, this didn’t stop us having a
During his membership Greg volunteered his bit of a natter about all things genealogical.
time on a weekly basis to assist researchers at
the Pukekohe Library and, from 2002 until This meeting was on a trial basis to see if an
2012, he also volunteered fortnightly at the informal session was a format that some of our
Family Research Centre at Panmure. Greg was members might enjoy. We will have
always generous with his knowledge of family one more meeting on March 19th
history and spent many hours assisting less and will evaluate the future of the
experienced researchers with their questions. meetings then.
His deep knowledge of Scottish research was
particularly appreciated. The energy and
commitment he brought to our Branch was
noteworthy and in 2013 Greg was awarded a
NZSG Branch Service Award for his services to
our Branch and the NZSG. We have missed his
input in recent years and sincerely mourn his
passing.
Val Gillanders
NZSG Franklin Branch Newsletter Page 2
▪ To tease / rub the wrong way – use of a
Occupations – teasel – if used in the wrong direction
thread did not lie properly
Woollen and Cotton Mill Workers
▪ To come a cropper – use of special shears
to cut lengths which became mechanised
This article is from a talk given to the Yorkshire
thus losing jobs
Family History Society by Adele Emm, who is
▪ Letting your hair down – hair had to be kept
particularly interested in her woollen and cotton
up and out of the way to avoid getting
worker ancestors.
tangled in machinery, thus hair was let
down during free time/enjoyment
▪ Piece work – pieces of cloth – many workers
were paid by the piece
▪ Gathering wool – wasting time
▪ Knocking off time – when the drive belt on
the machines was turned (knocked) off
signifying the end of a shift.
Do you have cotton or woollen workers in your
family? It is likely you have. They would mainly Jobs
be in cotton mills based in the Midlands of Everyone worked barefoot as leather shoes
England, e.g. Cheshire, south Lancashire and would slip on the oil and clogs would cause
Manchester, and woollen/worsted mills in the sparks – a risk of fire.
West Riding of Yorkshire, also southern parts of
Scotland, e.g. Lanark. Carding and combing were the home
preparation of the material prior to spinning
In the 1851 census there were 501,565 textile and weaving. Combing was for long wool;
workers comprising: carding was for shorter fibres. Carding removed
▪ 137,814 cotton and calico workers the impurities from the raw wool/cotton. The
▪ 104,061 woollen and worsted workers fluff generated often lead to bad chest
▪ 114,570 silk workers, and infections and in the late 1880s Christies
▪ 98,860 linen and flax workers (cancer hospital) was set up in Manchester to
treat sufferers. Carders were not paid by the
By 1871, when there was a recession, these piece.
numbers had fallen 486,142 workers:
▪ 128,464 cotton and calico Spinning carried out by women (thus the title
▪ 94,766 woollen and worsted spinster) and the men wove (the term wife was
▪ 75,180 silk derived from weaving). It took 6 women
▪ 17,993 linen and flax spinners to supply one male weaver until in
1764 James Hargreaves invented the Spinning
By 1891 the textile industry was the third Jenny (most likely called Jinny). Following the
largest in the country behind agricultural Industrial Revolution, a spinning mule was used.
labourers (ag labs) and domestic servants, and
by 1914 23.7 million women were working in
the mills.
Many of our colloquialisms derive from wool
and cotton mills, for example:
▪ Heirloom – the loom handed down from
one generation to the next
▪ On tenterhooks – wet cloth stretched on
wooden frame (tenter) and attached to
frame with hooks to dry, also straightened The Spinning Jenny invented by James Hargreaves
weave.
NZSG Franklin Branch Newsletter Page 3
Poorer quality spinning was done on a throstle Preparatory jobs before weaving
spinner and a throstler worked a ring. Beamers/warpers fit the warp threads (up and
down)
Mule spinners worked side to side, Ring
spinners worked up/down Drawer in – organised the pattern of the
threads, different colours, etc.
Reacher – the person actually organising the
threads under the supervision of the drawer
Slasher/sizer – strengthened the warp thread
Bobbin carrier/weft carrier/bobbin boy –
carried bobbins to where they were needed –
walked a long way every day and was a very
boring job.
Throstle spinning machine
Shoddy
Shoddy is the name given to an inferior woollen
yarn made by shredding scraps of woollen rags
Overseers/managers were male, whilst the
into fibres, grinding them and then mixing them
workers were women and children.
with small amounts of new wool.
Tenters – tended the machines which were
The manufacture of Shoddy was started in 1813
water powered
when Benjamin Law invented a machine to
shred and grind the fibres ready for re-spinning.
Little Piece’s – also known as nippers or
An even finer shredding process produced what
scavengers were mostly children and were
was called mungo, which was then made into
those who worked underneath the machines in
paper.
small spaces to join together broken threads.
By the 1860s Shoddy was based in the West
Doffers/cappers/quillers usually small children
riding of Yorkshire (heavy woollen district) and
who replaced full bobbins with empty ones.
Oldham. In 1861 shoddy weavers and dealers
were mainly men whilst the winders were
Balers/bale breakers would break the bales
woman.
apart on the ground floor Always a job for men
as this was heavy physical work.
Scourers cleaned and scrubbed the fleeces –
there was a high risk of contracting anthrax.
The upper floors contained Carding and
scutching machines which beat the dirt out of
the material.
Scutchers/willowers, carders, combers, lappers
worked on the upper floor where scutching
machines beat the dirt out of the material and
carders moved the yarn from the carding I hope, when using the 1841-1901 census, and
machine to the next process. These workers you find an ancestor’s occupation in the cotton
were paid an adult wage at the age of 21, so or woollen industries, you will understand a
many of them were younger. little more about what they actually did.
Rosemary Eden. Feb 2020
NZSG Franklin Branch Newsletter Page 4
Sheryn’s Techie Bit and Windows 10 can show a warmer
colour to make it easier to sleep at
Blue light night. Here, click on the Turn on
Do you stay up late at night, maybe far too late,
now button if you haven’t done it
doing genealogy work on your Windows 10
already.
computer? Your screen may be emitting
5. After that, you can use the slider
excessive blue light which can reduce your
option to set the colour temperature
ability to fall asleep fast, maintain energy
or strength of the blue light filter in
throughout the day, and cause eye strain.
Windows 10.
Windows 10 has a feature that can mitigate
If you go all the way to 100%, your
this problem, a blue light filter.
PC’s screen will turn dark orange. So,
it’s recommended to keep the
To enable the Blue Light filter in Windows 10, strength near 50%.
you need to follow these steps:
1. Simply open the Settings app on your
Windows 10 PC and click System. Now,
look for the Display option on the left
and click on it.
2. Near the top, you’ll find a toggle
below the Night Light option. Now, turn
this toggle to On.
3. After enabling Windows 10 Blue Light
6. Furthermore, you can also schedule
filter, you need to click on Night light
the Night Light feature to
settings for further options.
automatically kick in as the sun sets in
4. The Night light settings page tells you
your regions (requires you to enable
that screens emit blue light, location permissions).
7. If you want, you can set custom hours
for the Night Light feature to work.
So, guys, this how you can enable the blue light
filter in Windows 10 and save your eyes. Now,
if you don’t want to tweak any settings, you
can also enable and disable the Night Light
feature directly from the Action Center.
NZSG Franklin Branch Newsletter Page 5
100 years ago. Leap year superstitions
For women, February 29th can be a very
successful day, as once every four years on the
29th February they have the ‘right’ to propose
to a man.
The ‘right’ goes back hundreds of years when
the leap year day had no recognition in English
law (the day was ‘leapt over’ and ignored,
hence the term ‘leap year’) It was decided that
the day had no legal status, meaning that a
break in tradition on this day was acceptable.
So, on this day, women can take advantage of
this anomaly and propose to the man they wish
to marry.
In Scotland however, to ensure success they
should also wear a red petticoat under their
dress and make sure that it is partly visible to
the man when they propose.
https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Leap-
Year-Superstitions/
In Ireland legend has it that was St Bridget’s
complaint that lead to leap year marriages.
In the 5th century Ireland St. Bridget
complained to St. Patrick about women having
to wait for so long for a man to propose.
According to legend, St. Patrick said the
yearning females could propose on this one
day in February during the leap year.
Its rare to be born on Leap Day , but what about
dying on Leap Day?
According to the World Heritage
Encyclopaedia, in the 1800s, the British-born
James Milne Wilson, who later became the
eighth premier of Tasmania, “was born on a
leap day and died on a leap day.” Wilson died
on February 29th, 1880, on his “17th” birthday,
or aged 68 in regular years. Maybe that’s not
that crazy though, since you are more likely to
die on your birthday.
Do you have ancestors who
were born, married or died on
Leap Day?
NZSG Franklin Branch Newsletter Page 6
Across my desk For those who have NZ Medical people in their
tree between 1840 and 1930, Beth found this
Droving Dogs by Doug Williamson book online. It has a good reputation but
always be aware that there may be mistakes
Before trucking took over, nearly all stock was https://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/external/
moved by droving or railway trucks. In nearly WrightSt-Clair-HistoriaNuncVivat.pdf
all districts there were men “drovers” who
specialised in this type of work. Requirements
were a stock horse, saddle, good all-weather
clothing, a leading dog, a heading dog and a
huntaway dog. If there was enough work, one
or two all-round head and hunt dogs.
There are many a story told of outstanding
work done by these faithful animals who
worked from daylight to dark and the reward –
Pass the hat - Leaning out of a train window
a feed and a pat.
between Leura and Katoomba NSW, a
To me the outstanding dog is the leading dog. passenger lost his hat – but it was caught by a
A reliable and trustworthy leader was a very man leaning out of a window three carriages
valuable asset hard to replace. Many a drover behind. The two men turned out to be cousins
claimed that a good leader was better than a who had never met before! Pukekohe NZSG
man in front of a mob. His job was control of Newsletter Feb 1987
the front of the mob of sheep or cattle by
Have you checked out the NZSG web site
themselves all day, never to leave it unless told
lately? On one of my recent checks I found that
to.
the forms and charts are now all fillable online,
When the mob was let out onto the road, the no more laborious handwriting!
leader took control of the lead. He’d entice https://www.genealogy.org.nz/forms_and_ch
them to follow him and if they wanted to travel arts__228
too fast, he would steady them. He would steer
them past junctions or entice them past
obstacles on the road and over bridges. Some
stock had never seen a bridge before. Many a
time I’ve seen the leader around a mile ahead
of the drover. Although most of their work was
done by themselves, they would stop the mob,
tighten it up or loosen off at the command or
whistle of his drover. Books could be written
about them!
Contributed by Bea McGill Archive News
As from Monday 2nd March new hours and
many of you will be pleased to see that they are
now open for three FULL days.
Auckland - Monday and Tuesday closed.
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 9.00am-
5.00pm
The same hours apply to Wellington.
Photo credit Archives New Zealand – Drovers resting their
horses c1900-1947
NZSG Franklin Branch Newsletter Page 7
Watch list 2020
The branch meets on the second Tuesday of
Who do you think you are? magazine each month except January.
December 2019 published 50 web sites to 10.00am in the old Borough Council building
watch in 2020. Here is just a few. until further notice
7:00pm Informal Research evenings
https://www.thetrafalgarway.org/the-1805- And DNA group meetings
club in the library, The Centre,
The 1805 Club is home to all sorts of useful
12 Massey Avenue, Pukekohe.
content for family historians. In 2020 it plans to
launch ‘Nelson and Trafalgar and Me’ where
people can share family stories connected to
the battle Postal Address
NZSG Franklin Branch
http://www.warstateandsociety.com C/- Post Office Box 940,
A fascinating new digital collection Pukekohe 2340
that hosts thousands of E-mail: Franklin@genealogy.org.nz
documents from 11 government
departments,
A Prayer for Genealogists
Lord, help me dig into the past
And sift the sands of time
https://www.railwayarchive.org.uk/
That I might find the roots that made
Railway Archive. This revamped treasure trove
This family tree of mine.
of Great Central Railway material produced by
Lord, help me trace the ancient roads
Leicestershire’s county archive team now
On which my father’s trod
includes a Route Map feature.
And led them through so many lands
To find our present sod.
https://www.prisonhistory.org/
Look out for Prison History’s new material on
Lord, help me find an ancient book
lockups (short term confinement). It has
Or dusty manuscript
records from more than 700 sites focusing of
That’s safely hidden now away
Wales, Scotland and Ireland.
In some forgotten crypt;
Lord, let it bridge the gap that haunts
https://www.freeukgenealogy.org.uk
My soul when I can’t find
This site is due for a new look in 2020 with a
The missing link between some name
search engine that will sit entirely with in the
That ends the same as mine.
home page.
https://www.civilwarpetitions.ac.uk/ Until next time
This fascinating project gives you access to
hundreds of petitions from injured soldiers and happy hunting,
their wives and families in the aftermath of the
English Civil War. Searchable by a number of
fields they represent a rare name rich source Mary M
for ordinary soldiers. The petitions team is
about half through the four-year project, Disclaimer
uploading new material every month. Stories, other than those contributed by members, &
information in this newsletter are sourced from various
publications & the internet. While every care has been
taken, their accuracy cannot always be guaranteed
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