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D6948 - Messrs W G and J Strutt of Belper, cotton spinners - 1751-1938
- H - Child workforce registers and certificate books under assorted Factory Acts - 1836-1938

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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D6948/H/1
Former Reference	D6948/14/2
Title	Register of children in Belper factory of WG & J Strutt where children under 13 years of age were employed
Date	Nov 1836-May 1844
Description	Time register required under the provisions of the Factories Regulation Act 3&4 William IV c103 by HM Inspectors of Factories.. Page 1, introductory page identifies register as for the factory at Bridge Street, for North, South, West, Winding and Reeling Mills. Page2, list of holidays and half-days given in the factory. Pages 5-6, declaration on hours of work, 18 Nov 1836, with declaration of change of hours, 5 Nov 1840. Pages 15-64, lists of names of children under 13 years of age employed in the factory, from page 30 arranged in fourteen classes, A-N. Columns for date, names of children, hours of work, date work is changed, and index of change (including C for reaching age of 13, D for discharge. They are working a rota because their age restricts their hours of labour and the periods of the day they work. Page 72 onwards, time recovered under sections 3-5 of the Act. Labelled 90 on front cover and first page, later labelled O1/212.
Extent	1 volume
Level	Item
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator	Messrs W G & J Strutt
Archive Creator	English Sewing Cotton Company Limited
Term	Child labour
	Employees
	Factory workers
	Workers

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