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Margaret in Burton
02-01-10, 19:14
It says New Hydroleine Company mitch maker

Can anyone explain?


http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu326/margharrison/1911warrilow.jpg
Tom Tom
02-01-10, 19:27
New Hydroleine Company Watch Maker?
Margaret in Burton
02-01-10, 19:33
Doesn't look like watch to me Tom, and what the heck is New Hydroleine Company?
Margaret in Burton
02-01-10, 19:43
I have a feeling it's something to do with The Standard Soap factory in Ashby de la Zouch.
Mandy in Wiltshire
02-01-10, 19:48
Marg, this is from the National Archives site:

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATID=6055074&CATLN=6&accessmethod=5
Mandy in Wiltshire
02-01-10, 19:56
This is a really good site for old occupations, although I can't find anything there that looks like mitch maker! I've looked under 'match maker' and 'pitch maker' too but nothing fits :(

http://rmhh.co.uk/occup/index.html
Tilly Mint
02-01-10, 19:59
I have a feeling it's something to do with The Standard Soap factory in Ashby de la Zouch.
When i looked at your 1st post - disinfectant came to mind, not sure why:confused:
Olde Crone
02-01-10, 20:09
Hydroleine appears to be either a medicine for treating insanity(!) or alternatively, a disinfecting soap.

What a mitch is I do not know.

OC
Margaret in Burton
02-01-10, 20:30
Hydroleine appears to be either a medicine for treating insanity(!) or alternatively, a disinfecting soap.

What a mitch is I do not know.

OC

That is why I am thinking the Ashby soap factory. When I was googling I saw references to soap. Ashby de la Zouch is famous for soap and these folks lived within a spitting distance of where the factory is.

I don't know what a mitch is either. LOL :D:D
Mary from Italy
02-01-10, 20:47
I've found the company - it made washing powder.

http://www.archive.org/stream/newfoundlandasit00harv#page/n7/mode/2up/search/hydroleine

"Mitch maker" is meaningless. Maybe "switch maker", very badly written?
Margaret in Burton
02-01-10, 21:06
Thank you Mary

Well done
Merry
02-01-10, 21:43
Surely it says match maker??
Margaret in Burton
02-01-10, 22:27
Surely it says match maker??

It could look like that, but the "a" is bigger than the "m"

What does that have to do with washing powder?
Merry
02-01-10, 22:29
Nothing. I hadn't read all the posts!
Rick
02-01-10, 23:07
I don't think the first letter is an "m" - compare it with the first letter of "maker"
Margaret in Burton
02-01-10, 23:20
I don't think the first letter is an "m" - compare it with the first letter of "maker"

What do you think it is then Rick?
Olde Crone
02-01-10, 23:22
Hmm, I wonder if it says "Nitra maker", an attempt at Nitre, nitrates being an important part of washing powder...

....I'll get me coat, shall I?

OC
Margaret in Burton
02-01-10, 23:26
Hmm, I wonder if it says "Nitra maker", an attempt at Nitre, nitrates being an important part of washing powder...

....I'll get me coat, shall I?

OC

EH!!!!
Mandy in Wiltshire
03-01-10, 12:41
Marg, did you see the link I put up earlier in the thread? There's a document on the National Archives site about the company.
Mary from Italy
03-01-10, 13:25
That document refers to the company going into liquidation, I think.
Margaret in Burton
03-01-10, 13:46
Yes Mandy I saw that, sorry I forgot to say thank you. :o:o:o
Mandy in Wiltshire
03-01-10, 15:19
Yes Mandy I saw that, sorry I forgot to say thank you. :o:o:o

:d I just thought you might have missed it, I sometimes go cross-eyed when I'm scrolling down posts ;(
Rick
04-01-10, 17:27
What do you think it is then Rick?

Well I did wonder if it was an "n" - but there's that funny line next that I can't make out. The half loop that start's the first letter is the same as starts the "m" of "maker", but then there is one less arch. If the second letter is a badly formed "a" then why doesn't it look like the one in "maker" ?

Sorry - more questions than answers.

Am I the only to find the idea of a soap maker going into liquidation funny by the way ? Imagine all those bubbles !
Rick.
Merry
04-01-10, 17:45
It's a good job no one analyses my handwriting to this degree! I form letters in loads of different ways, often depending on what they may, or may not, be joined to on each side. :o
Margaret in Burton
04-01-10, 18:12
Well I did wonder if it was an "n" - but there's that funny line next that I can't make out. The half loop that start's the first letter is the same as starts the "m" of "maker", but then there is one less arch. If the second letter is a badly formed "a" then why doesn't it look like the one in "maker" ?

Sorry - more questions than answers.

Am I the only to find the idea of a soap maker going into liquidation funny by the way ? Imagine all those bubbles !Rick.

Now I find that very funny. :D:D:D
Muggins in Sussex
04-01-10, 18:18
So did I Marg :d

Not sure it's any help, but I found this about Hydroleine Disinfectants and laundry powders...made by a family called Harrison in Leicestershire

http://www.jstor.org/pss/25274246
Margaret in Burton
04-01-10, 18:37
That's interesting Joan, thank you.

No relation to my Harrison's by the way.
Margaret in Burton
06-01-10, 16:15
I have found another person with New Hydroleine on the 1911 census.

This time it says they are a soap packer employed by New Hydroleine.

Sorted anyway.

Thanks to everyone who helped on this one.
Mandy in Wiltshire
06-01-10, 18:25
I have found another person with New Hydroleine on the 1911 census.

This time it says they are a soap packer employed by New Hydroleine.

Sorted anyway.

Thanks to everyone who helped on this one.

We all learnt something new from this one! Glad you got it sorted :)