Thread: An oddball Sheffield Threesome.

IMPORTANT UPDATE!

Now that Ancestry.com is accessible again, I've been able to dig into this all a bit more... And I think I indicated the wrong Samuel Sims.

There was a Samuel Sims in Yeldersley who kept Lady Hole Farm.

But in Duffield there was a Samuel Sims who was a blacksmith. What with that 'Duffield' identified blacksmith scene, I think that fella is the more likely one; thus there is no Lady Hole¹ involved here.

The blacksmith was born in sometime around 1808. He married a woman named Hannah (whose family name wasn't recorded), and had six kids -- Mary Ann, Charles, Louisa, Rachael, Rose, and Samuel.

Tracking his children is a bit depressing.

1. In A Book For the Hammock (1887), William Clark Russell writes, under Sea Phrases: "In old marine narratives and novels the term "lady's hole" frequently occurs. I was long bothered by this expression, which I indirectly gathered to signify a sort of cabin; but in what part of the ship situated, and why so called, I could not imagine, until in the course of my reading I lighted upon a description of a man-of-war of 1712, in which it is stated that "the lady's hole" is a place for the gunner's small stores, built between the partners of the main-mast, and looked after by a man named "a lady," "who is put in by turns to keep the gun room clean."

SHAME ON YOU !!!!

Sounds like my Liverpool razor from sexchange





and so everybody else get's it....... I bought a razor listed as LIVERPOOL SEXCHANGE. It was actually 6 exchange on the tang.

The one in the middle is very nice, haven't seen another razor with more detailed etching.

Originally Posted by Voidmonster

... and looked after by a man named "a lady," "who is put in by turns to keep the gun room clean."

That doesn't make it any better, in fact it seems to me worse... reads almost like a precursor of the 'glory hole' (don't google it)

Originally Posted by 10Pups

Sounds like my Liverpool razor from sexchange





and so everybody else get's it....... I bought a razor listed as LIVERPOOL SEXCHANGE. It was actually 6 exchange on the tang.

You got the Sexchange razor! AWESOME! (I laughed my head off when I saw that listing)

Originally Posted by ferroburak

The one in the middle is very nice, haven't seen another razor with more detailed etching.

I've certainly not seen many like it. I really wish that it's twin had a legible etch, because it was originally quite fancy too with some sort of slogan. Now, all I can tell is that it used to have words on it.

Originally Posted by gugi

That doesn't make it any better, in fact it seems to me worse... reads almost like a precursor of the 'glory hole' (don't google it)

Yeah, that explanation amused me because of the way the author presumed it answered the question, when in fact it just opened up a whole different question of equal magnitude.

(Before I collected razors, I collected slang)

I had the pleasure of seeing these in person. As a complete newbie I feel like ive just seen the cream of the crop right out the gate. I equate it to going out surfing for the first time, standing up inside a 6' barrell and then swimming with dolphins the rest of the day! Its gonna be tough to top it!

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