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| According to Stephen Wilson: Richard Wilson, born in Ossett in 1710 was one of the founders of the Green Chapel in Ossett in 1732 (with a Robert Wilson) and it is known that Richard had a son called Isaac Wilson born in about 1750 (Isaac is aged 70 in the 1821 Ossett census). There is an IGI entry for a Richard Wilson born Ossett in 1710 (and another one born in Dewsbury in 1714, the son of Richard Wilson). The IGI lists a Richard Wilson who married Betty Rhodes on the 13th December 1738 in Dewsbury According to Stephen Wilson: The Leeds Mercury recorded that in 1736, Richard Wilson, a broadloom weaver living in Ossett, but born in Lepton, Huddersfield in 1714, made two pieces of cloth. He carried one piece on his head the ten miles to Leeds where he sold it. The merchant to whom he sold the first piece of cloth also wanted the other piece. Richard walked back to Ossett and then back to Leeds with the second piece of cloth - covering a distance of about 40 miles on foot in one day Mercury (Date Unknown): THE WOOLLEN CLOTH TRADE IN THE OLDEN TIME.- An elderly person residing at Ossett has sent us the following curious and interesting particulars of the manner in which the domestic cloth manufacture was carried on by his own ancestors. The manufacturers of the present day will see that their fathers worked harder, and for much worse fare, than they themselves do; and that former days cannot be compared with the present for the amount of public accommodation, by means of carriers, cloth halls, &c. Our correspondent favours us with a few verses of his own composing, which, as they contain some good advise, we shall not withhold from our readers:- "The inhabitants of Ossett, a village three miles from Wakefield, have been employed in making broad cloth from time out of mind. In 1734 the weavers &c. employed in that trade had to work fifteen hours every day for eight-pence. A horn was blown at five o'clock in the morning, the time for beginning, and at eight at night the time for leaving their work. The clothiers of this place went to Leeds to sell their goods, which was about ten miles; it was customary with them to carry a piece of cloth on their heads which weighed between fifty and sixty pounds, and when they arrived there they had to stand in Briggate to sell them in all sorts of weather; one man used jocosely to say, that it (meaning the piece of cloth) kept his hat on. After the market was over, it was customary with them to lay their goods in cellars, and on the following market day they went by three or four o'clock in the morning to find the goods where they left them. If they had gone late, there would have been a difficulty in finding them, as the place would have been rumaged. About the year 1736, Richard Wilson, a resident of Ossett, who was born at Lepton, near Huddersfield in 1714, made two pieces of broad cloth; he carried one of them on his head to Leeds and sold it-the merchant being in want of the fellow piece, he went fromLeeds to Ossett, then carried the other piece to Leeds, and then went to Ossett again : he walked about forty miles on that day." | ||||||||||||||
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