From: john1@s145802280.onlinehome.fr   
      
   On 26/08/2023 22:04, J. P. Gilliver wrote:   
   > I presume this relates to something other than the hair-grooming object,   
   > as I have someone (Jon.n Fairclough of Liverpool in the 1851) who is one   
   > at age 27, and is employing 60 men & Women. Is a "comb" some piece of   
   > machinery or something? (Though not clear there, the word definitely is   
   > comb, as his father-in-law is one earlier, and he still is later, where   
   > it is clear.)   
      
   Not a reed maker!   
      
    From a search in FindMyPast newspapers   
      
   10 January 1853, Liverpool Albion, Liverpool, Lancashire, England   
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   THE ONLY WHOLESALE COMB MANUFACTORY IN LIVERPOOL JONATHAN W. FAIRCLOUGH,   
   (DAGNALL AND CO.,) IVORY, TORTOISESHELL, & COMB MANUFACTURER, No. 3,   
   ROSE-STREET, (NEAR ST. GEORGE'S-HALL.)   
      
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