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Redditch Heritage The Long Crendon Connection

When Kirby Beard transferred his needle making operations to Redditch in 1862, three quarters
of the workforce, about 37 employees according to contemporary accounts, went with them.
Census returns, baptisms, registrations of births, marriages and deaths have been analysed to
identify those most likely to have been involved. The 37 needle workers so identified, and the 39
wives and children who went with them, were photographed and those named below are believed
to feature in that photograph.
Walter Biggs

Thomas Biggs
Frederick Curt
Adelaid Curt
Jethro Govier

Henry Govier
Emmanual Harris
David Harris

Robert Haynes
Eliza Haynes
William James
Mary James

George Johnson
Benjamin Johnson
William Mallam

Frank Turvey
Esther Turner
Elizabeth Turner
Jonah Warner

Job Feasey
Mary Feasey
Ann Feasey

David Hill
Samuel Hill
Charles Spiers

Nancy Spiers
Phillip Spencer
Emma Spencer

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