Beaumont Crosland -great grandfather

The 1911 census places Percy Crosland living at 224 New Hey Rd ,Huddersfield (the white door down from the blue door in the modern picture above-the other picture is New Hey rd in the 1930's)at this time Percy is described as a commercial chemist aged 25 and single ,and his brother Herbert,23, is described as a cloth designers assistant.Their parents and our great grandparents Beaumont Crosland and Ellen Crosland are both aged 49 and Beaumont is described as a "shoddy manufacurer "(I have put a long explanation of what that is at the bottom of this post!

In the 1901 census Beaumont is described as a "shoddy manufacturer " living at 7, Oakes rd (just round the corner from New Hey rd and interestingly 2 doors down from Oakes Baptist Church! -I remember dad saying his grandfather had been a Baptist! picture of church above )and in the 1891 census as a rag puller (someone who sorted garments by fabric and who removed buttons etc etc for resale )In 1871 census Beaumont is living in Luck Lane Marsh, Huddersfield with his dad Alfred Crosland(born 1834) and his mum Sarah Crosland.

In the 1861 census Alfred is living in Westgate Huddersfield and is a glass and china dealer.Interestingly his father is also called Beaumont, heres his entry in 1841 census

Name Beaumont Crosland
Age 35
Estimated Year of Birth 1806
Relationship to Head of Household
Occupation
Address Westgate
District Huddersfield Union, Golcar
Parish Huddersfield
Administrative County Yorkshire
Birth Place Yorkshire
Birth County Yorkshire




So the Crosland's were associated for generations with Huddersfield and given the fact Huddersfield was associated with textiles its not surpising that Alfred apart generations worked in the "rag trade"
Interestingly there is no record of Beaumont in the 1881 census when he was 19 and I wonder what he was doing then?

PS Long Explanation shoddy manufacturer
Shoddy Manufacturer
Recycled or remanufactured wool which is of inferior quality compared to the original wool. Historically generated from loosely woven materials. Benjamin Law invented shoddy and mungo, as such, in 1813. He was the first to organise, on a larger scale, the activity of taking old clothes and grinding them down into a fibrous state that could be re-spun into yarn. The shoddy industry was centred on the towns of Batley, Morley, Dewsbury and Ossett in West Yorkshire, and concentrated on the recovery of wool from rags. The importance of the industry can be gauged by the fact that even in 1860 the town of Batley was producing over 7000 tonnes of shoddy. At the time there were 80 firms employing a total of 550 people sorting the rags. These were then sold to shoddy manufacturers of which there were about 130 in the West Riding.