James Farrar

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: Operative cotton spinner, 1861, Stalybridge, Cheshire. ⁴²⁰

• Census: 1861, 7 Apr 1861, 14 Lower Tame Street, Stalybridge, Cheshire. ⁴²⁰

• Occupation: Self acting minder, 1871, Stalybridge, Cheshire. ³³⁰

• Census: 1871, 2 Apr 1871, 57 Huddersfield Street, Stalybridge, Cheshire. ³³⁰

• Occupation: Self actor Minder, 1881, Oldham, Lancashire. ³³¹ Self actor minder: Watched and minded the 'Self Acting Mule' - the name of a multi thread spinning machine. The original Mule was hand operated and was invented by Samuel Crompton of Bolton in 1779. It was made self-acting by Richard Roberts in 1830.
From "Old occupation names" on Hall Genealogy website. http://rmhh.co.uk/occup/s.html

• Census: 1881, 3 Apr 1881, Acre, Oldham, Lancashire. ³³¹

James married Alice Bamforth, daughter of James Bamforth and Unknown, on 21 Sep 1856 in St. Michael, Ashton Under Lyne, Lancashire. ¹¹⁶.^,419 (Alice Bamforth was born about 1834 in Slaithwaite, Yorkshire ^37,330,420.)