Talk:Samuel Oldknow

Citing Showmyroots[edit]

The reliable sources noticeboard consistently comes out against using Rootsweb/Ancestry etc because of their user-generated content and, believe me, there are a lot of amateur genealogists out there who are quick to publish and slow to check. Should this article be using Showmyroots as a source, as it currently does? I fail to see the difference. - Sitush (talk) 10:04, 28 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The following issues might be worth considering for inclusion. The apprentice house of the Goyt valley mill still survives, and Oldknow, not Robert Owen, devised the so -called "monitor", used as an incentive to grade individual workers by Owen at New Lanark. Owen had been a supplier to Oldknow at Marple in his early days in Manchester and a regular visitor to the mill. Indications of how life in the apprentice house was viewed by apprentices in Oldknow's time can be found in a Chetham Society publication of the 1960s. They are remarkably positive and as such are probably worth tracking down. Other survivals are Oldknow's steep access road from Marple village to the mill and his bridge over the Goyt which completed access. Delahays (talk) 08:56, 1 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Category:English Freemasons[edit]

It comes from the possible following WP:reliable sources:

From Here to There: Steering Your VMAP– Mark Oldknow, 33° GC (scottishrite.org);
the book titled Samuel Oldknow and the Arkwrights which affirms "it is also uncertain how far his initiation as a Freemason at the Lodge of Benevolence in 1787 may be taken as evidence of his persistence in the paths of liberal theology" (p. 232);
the Doric Lodge which claims he was a "Christian gentleman", as well as the article titled Freemasonry in Murple (oldknows.com website).

It seems to be the same information could be source directly in the WP article, at least with concerns to his bond with the liberal theology which made his Masonic initiation more than probable.Theologian81sp (talk) 14:02, 28 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]