Thank you to 'Col' and 'Mallow Cork' for responding so quickly to my request for information about Mary Simpson. She was never known as Mary Anne, and after checking, we don't think that is our Mary. She is quite an elusive character and my grandmother thought she had lied about her age when boarding the Ship, The Surat, when on her way to Dunedin. Does anyone know the history of young women being sent from Limerick to work in the Woollen Factory in the 1870s? Mary was a dressmaker and must have been promised a job there!
vijaspa
Wednesday 9th Oct 2013, 09:47PMMessage Board Replies
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Hi, do you know what Woolen factory Mary was sent to ?
Mallow Cork
Thursday 10th Oct 2013, 04:09PM -
I'm not really sure of the name of the woollen factory but checking the web I found..........."Woollen milling was one of the first large secondary industries. Arthur Burns opened the first mill at Mosgiel in 1871 and others followed, especially along the east coast of the South Island. Dunedin city had two mills." I can only think Mary was promised a job in a mill like this and arrived a couple of years after its opening.
vijaspa
Thursday 10th Oct 2013, 09:56PM