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ref: HO 107/ 532/ 12/ 18/ 20 - this has baffled both Ken and Mrs Ken. Can you help?
Robert lived in Back Albion Street Ashton under Lyne. Looks like "beam ?engine...". In 1851 he was a "traviler"

Hi Ken

1841 I would say is definitely Steam Engine something
the 1851 sounds like Traveller? but I can't see this one.. where is he.. I can see one married to Hannah, who is an Engineer, another married to Milly, a Cottan Yarn something or other. Who was he married to?

The word 'Tenter' seems to have been scored through. That was someone who attended or minded an engine, especially in Lancs.
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yes that sounds good Daggers, I see the person below is tenter too

Looks like Beam Engine Tender to me, someone who looks after a beam engine, an essential machine in many spinning mills. Beam engines were first used to pump water out of mines or into canals, but could be used to pump water to supplement the flow for a waterwheel powering a mill. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beam_engine

Re the several 'Tenters, cotton' on that page.. Tenterer - Someone who, after cloth was dyed, stretched it on a frame, called a "Tent" for drying . This frame was fitted with hooks known as "Tenterhooks" - about which we all know!

Re 1851!
HO107 - Piece: 2234 - Folio: 204 - Page: 13
Address: Hertford Street, Ashton Under Lyne, Audenshaw, Lancs
INGHAM, Robert - Head - Md - 40 - Engineer - Ashton U Lyne, Lancashire

Occupation fits with 1841.

Thanks esp. Dickisam. For logic, How about steam engine tenderer ?

kwr wrote:Thanks esp. Dickisam. For logic, How about steam engine tenderer ?

I think the word is Beam and beam engine fits far better with the spinning industries at that time. While steam engines were in widespread use in industry, because the spinning of cotton and wool needed vast amounts of water to process the raw material and the finished products it meant there had to be an adjacent constant water supply such as a river so most motive power came from water-wheels and beam engines.

Thanks, I was being slipshod. I meant beam engine but it is tenderer I really meant ie someone who looks after the beam engine. Beam engine tender it is! Mrs Ken