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The passenger manifest of the barque "Fairlie", arriving at Port Jackson, New South Wales in September 1848, lists George Stubbs as a whitesmith and rough carpenter. His wife and daughters are listed as house servants and needlewomen. 

The birthplace of the three youngest children, Elisabeth,George and Henry, is given as Calais, France. As their dates of birth span the years 1840 to 1847 and their port of embarkation is also Calais, the family had evidently been in France for at least 7 years.  Why was this English family living in France? Why were there other English families also embarking in Calais? Why would an English ship pick up passengers in France?

Finding the answers to these questions led us to uncover a fascinating story.  In the early 1800s there were tens of thousands of English people living and working in France. In the north there were ironworkers building a railway. In Lille, flax and linen weavers, mainly women, worked in the factories. In Calais, in an area called St Pierre les Calais, or Basseville,several thousand English workers lived and toiled. They were the Dentelliers the Lacemakers of Calais.

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