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The earliest textile workers have left a legacy
of their trades in local surnames like WALKER a fuller, LISTER
a dyer, and WEBSTER a weaver.
At the dye house, Northbridge in Halifax,
lived BATE (Bartholomew) the LISTER and ROBERT LISTER. Near by
at the fulling mill lived GEPPE (Geoffrey) the WALKER and his
son NELLE (Nigel) the WALKER. Nelle was succeeded by his son
ROBERT NELLSON.
"Robert
and John of Copley, sons of John Copley, indicted with John,
son of Robert of Tong, for slaying John Bateson, son of Bartholomew
the Lister of Halifax at Woodkirk in the Wednesday before the
feast of St. Peter-ad-vinculum. COURT OF ASSIZE, YORK 1337
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