Re: John Pound (machine breaker)
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Re: John Pound (machine breaker)
L Jackett 3/22/09
Hello Lela
I can't give you all the details through this forum, but the larger picture is this. There is a Pound/e family in Hampshire from the early 1500s, and I can trace them down to a Thomas Pounde, a Jesuit imprisoned some 30 years for recusancy. (You can find him in many places, from Wikipedia to the DNB.) I have yet to establish the links but it is highly likely that his family produced John Pounds (1776-1839) who started the Ragged Schools. (Again, standard reference works discuss both JP and the Ragged Schools.) The men in this family are chacterized by idealism and a stubbornness that pushes them into rebellion. Your machine-breaker John sounds like part of the same family. He's in the right place at the right time--he almost has to be related.
Get back to me at my regular email address (wapo "at" cl.aoyama.ac.jp)and I'll send you some files that will point you toward the documentation I have.
Meanwhile, tell me what you know of your John's ancestry.
Wayne
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Re: John Pound (machine breaker)
L Jackett 3/23/09
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Wayne Pounds 3/23/09
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Wayne Pounds 3/23/09
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Re: John Pound (machine breaker)
L Jackett 3/24/09
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