Kezia Skull née Winslow born 1810  
Canal Side 


Picture from the SWOP website
Reference number MHW : 24846

Kezia, wife of Edwin Skull,
Had a shop where she sold toys
And though she had no children
Was a friend to girls and boys,
She also ran a grocers,
She was busy as you’ll see,
For all the factory workers
Would shop there for their tea.
But the Skulls, a canny couple,
Paid their staff with a coin shaped disc
So their profits they could double
Paying wages using this,
You couldn’t spend it anywhere,
Just in a Skull owned trade
A situation most unfair
Until new laws were made.

Kezia was the third wife of Edwin Skull.  It would appear that they had no children.
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