Below are some resources I recommend if any of your ancestors in your family tree were Cotton Feeders.

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Description: Someone who worked in the textile industry feeding the cotton into the carding machine to straighten the fibre. By 1850 there were some 550 cotton mills in Lancashire, which had become the hub for the industry. Conditions in those mills were poor with aching head and limbs and nausea being commonplace, not to mention the over-crowding, the smell, the heat, lack of sanitation, the long hours and the repetitive, boring work. Workers developed tuberculosis, bronchitis and asthma thanks to the cotton lint in the air. See also: Beater, Fustian Weaver, Fustian Cutter, Fuller, Beamer, Cotton Weaver, Cotton Winder, Beetler, Billier, Cotton Spinner, Cotton Scavenger, Bobbin Carrier, Bobbin Turner.

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