1921 is a moment of huge change of trauma and disruption and what is really empowering as we can see our own ancestors impacted upon them. joining me now is 1921 census expert, the head of content publishing operations at the online genealogy service, findmypast mary mckee. give us your take. we are incredibly excited to bring the census to life and everyone can now search it. what we are seeing from the census is a world after the first world war, after a pandemic and what we can see is the impact on the population numbers. we can also see the change in society mentioned, more people in
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Summary
Ulster’s ready-made shirt making industry, located largely in the north west of Northern Ireland, was an important but little known industry. Its origins lie in the early 19th century, when local man William Scott established a shirt making enterprise in Derry in 1831. Having spotted a demand, among fashionable society, for cotton shirts with embroidered linen fronts, he expanded his making, via outstations, into manufacture and by 1850 was thought to have one of the highest wage bills in the city. His early success paved the way for others, who took an industrial approach to shirt making.
Technological advances, such as the introduction of the sewing machine, allowed further investment in the city and industrialists to construct purpose built factories. The Tillie & Henderson factory at 19,000 sq ft, opened in 1856, was the largest of its kind in the world. By the 1902, there were 38 shirt factories in Derry, employing 18,000 workers and 80,000 outworke