Bambocheuse ?

[Marilyne]

hi all, 

I'm reading this a bit late despite having been asked for help. 

Actually I learnt something, because I did not know the word before. 

Thanks for that! 

as some here would say: every day is a schoolday! 

M. 

[RaySearching]

Time for an interlude

 

[TullochArd]

11 hours ago, Jim Strawbridge said:

I am not trying to do other than get at the truth. You put up a good case and you are probably right. But in the cloth and spinning industry there were jobs with strange names. The machinery in spinning and cloth manufacture could imitate a puppet as it flicks up and down when in motion - just like a puppet on strings. So a bambocheuse could be an operator of such a machine. Did Magna Carta die in vain?  Probably. But I am still very much sitting on the fence with this one. What is strange is that Google and Wiki seem to be devoid of anything that can help with contemporary evidence..

I think we're all trying to get to the truth for you JS.  My part in this was to answer your question by offering factual evidence corroborated from multiple and diverse historical sources.  I'm sorry that any of this original research/collation of obscure facts has failed to register with Google or Wiki but, at a conservative estimate, I'd offer that more than 75% of the advise offered on GWF is original and similarly fails to meet that curious criteria.

Whilst you remain sitting on the fence I'd offer a couple of further (and final) points for your kind consideration regarding your "Bambocheuse" machine operator alternative.....which I have to note fails to be supported by any factual evidence or be corroborated by any historical sources.  

• Of the many (the site says hundreds) casualties of the 1916 explosion an advanced search of these only produces the three Bambocheuse that you have identified.  If these ladies are in some way "Bambocheuse" machine operators then it's a pretty specialised machine considering the scale of the overall textile industry in Picardy at this time and to only register a casualty rate of 3 "Bambocheuse" in "100's".  
• At the time of their deaths in 1916 Mme. Cottignies is about 53, Mme. Bomme is about 52 and and Mme. Gohr a staggering 93.  It seems an unlikely group to be holding any "Bambocheuse" machine operator role worthy of mention on their death certificate.

As I said at the start of your thread it's a few old girls connected some way to a local puppet entertainment venture and making a few francs together.

Au revoir et bonne chance!

[MaureenE]

The French Forum https://forum.pages14-18.com/index.php has previously been mentioned on GWF. Maybe you could ask there and see what the view is, referring to this GWF topic.

You could use Google Translate https://translate.google.com or similar.

There is a category "Les femmes dans la guerre" in

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Maureen

[Jim Strawbridge]

1 hour ago, TullochArd said:

Whilst you remain sitting on the fence I'd offer a couple of further (and final) points for your kind consideration regarding your "Bambocheuse" machine operator alternative.....which I have to note fails to be supported by any factual evidence or be corroborated by any historical sources.  

Here is a listing of jobs in the Lancashire mills ( I particularly like throstle spinner). Of course, if I had factual evidence this thread would never have been started. But if Lancashire can have obscure names for jobs in the cotton industry I am sure that there are likely to be similar obscurities in France and Belgium.

http://www.andrewalston.co.uk/cottonindustryjobs.html