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Manah, I apologize for not reading carefully. I assumed you meant that Joseph Rodgers and Sons only existed during that time

Thanks for your help :)

Actually from the research I have done, it appears the dates you listed above coincide directly with Queen Victoria's reign. Maybe that was the period that their royal warrant issued by her was...

I guess that's how you get skilled workers. The paper also mentioned that it was not uncommon that 3 or 4 generations of the same family worked at the same time. Imagine heading off to work each...

What I never noticed before from that book is the young age at which the people with the most years of service at JR began working there. Four of them began working at 9 years old, and a dozen were...

This seems to me to have been made anytime from the 1840s to the early 1870s. What do you guys think? Is there a way to narrow it down?