The Fletcher House of Lace and Its Wider Family Associations

Download or read book The Fletcher House of Lace and Its Wider Family Associations written by Samuel Billyeald Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fletcher family of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, England between about 1550 and 1957, particularly the descendants of Edward Fletcher (d.1871) and his wife, Phoebe Allen. Their seventeen children were born between 1824 and 1850. The family busines seemed to be machine- made lace, which they manufactured in England and also in Russia, particularly during the 1800s. Some descendants immigrated to New Zealand, others immigrated to Pennsylvania, Illinois and elsewhere in the United States, and still others immigrated to southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).