Thomas, William (1861)
Thomas, William
Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales; lipp worker (fl. 1861)
This man was recorded in the 1861 Census as a ‘straw chair maker’, aged 82. His wife Jane, aged 73, assisted as a ‘strawchair seller’. Thomas was one of two such makers in Merthyr, the other being Jenkins Parry.
Source: Bebb, Welsh Furniture (2007), II, p. 291.
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