flax spinner

Their need for experienced flax spinners brought an influx of workers from other sections of the British Isles.

His father founded the family linen firm of Thomas Sinton & Co. Ltd. (flax spinners).

Born in Dairsie, Fife he was one of seven children of John Annan, a flax spinner.

Leeds flax spinners lost their competitive edge due to the free trade in machinery and could not compete with those in Ireland, France and Belgium.

Educated at Wellington Academy, Belfast, he later entered the family firm of Lindsay, Thompson & Co. Ltd., flax spinners.

In the 1800s, Clark Thread recruited flax spinners from the British Isles to its stateside mills, and the Scottish flavor of Kearny took hold.

He was President of Ulster Flax Spinners' Association and President of the Board of Governors of Campbell College, Belfast.

John Dermot Campbell, managing director of Henry Campbell and Co., and Messrs Laverty and Co. Ltd (flax spinners).

Crawford Brothers, flax spinners and makers of linen thread and shoe thread opened in Crummock in 1775 and moved to a factory at Barr Farm, Barrmill in 1836.

He became honorary chairman of the French Flax Committee, president of the Industrial Society of the Nord and French president of the International Federation of Flax Spinners.

He was born in Comber, County Down, second son of John Andrews, a wealthy flax spinner, and Sarah, daughter of William Drennan; his elder brother Thomas, father of three eminent sons, inherited the family business.

Elizabeth Gale in her book Farmers, Fishermen and Flax spinners' writes that " every man in Burton was born with salt in his veins and he either became a full time fisherman or combined fishing with his usual occupation".

Andrews was born in Comber, County Down, the third son of Thomas Andrews, flax spinner, of Ardara, Comber, and his wife, Eliza, daughter of James Alexander Pirrie and sister of William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie.

Through the course of his work he became renowned for being a prolific inventor, notably of the lockstitch sewing machine (1833), safety pin (1849), a forerunner of the Winchester repeating rifle, a successful flax spinner, knife sharpener, streetcar bell, hard-coal-burning stove, artificial stone, street sweeping machinery, and the ice plough.

The 19th century High Mill was built for merchant and flax spinner David Lindsay in 1833.