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    Handsworth Dairies

    Thanks for the information Lyn. She was born in 1880ish and I have her on the Irish census at the Munster Dairy School in Cork. But by the time of the 1911 census she's already married - she married in February from her Handsworth address with her landlord and landlady as her witnesses. I'm just...
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    Handsworth Dairies

    Hello all, I've just found this forum as my great grandmother was a dairymaid and she lived in Handsworth around 1910. I'm wondering whether the dairy when it was set up employed dairymaids and was it automated milking back then? If she wasn't actually milking the cows she might have been...
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