Announcing our First Forgotten Women Friday in Northern Ireland

We are pleased to announce that our next Forgotten Women Friday will be on 17 October, when we will be looking at women who were working in the linen industry in Ulster at the time of the 1901 Census.  Specifically, we are going to research women between twenty-six and thirty-six years of age working in the spinning mills, weaving factories, linen manufacturers and hemstitching factories of the linen trade in Counties Armagh and Down, in what has been Northern Ireland, since 1921. We are very grateful to members of ABC Family History Association, who are taking the lead on this occasion. Please contact us if you would like to take part. For details of how these collaborative research days work, see here.

There’s no need to be deterred if you do not have experience researching in Northern Ireland, as ABCFHA have compiled a very useful list of potential sources. There is more information about the linen industry here.