Nathaniel Wyld

  Noted events in his life were:

• History: Cromwell, 1644-1660, Woodborough, Nottingham, England. During this period, it was the dark ages of Parish Registers, because under Cromwell, the Registers were taken out of the hands of the church and given to civilian registrars. Even when Charles II came to the throne and the Registers were returned to the church there was a lack of any standard format, which makes entries haphazard and difficult to read.
From 1754 marriages had to take place in the Parish Church.
In 1813 with the passing of Rose's Act, the format of the Registers was standardised.

• History: Local - Stocking Trade, Abt 1600, Calverton, Nottingham, England. By the sixteenth century, much of the forest in Calverton was in the form of heathland which was used for sheep pasture. Wool from the sheep may have been used to make yarn for the early hosiery industry which originated in Calverton in 1589 when William Lee first conceived the idea of imitating the action of a pair of knitting needles on a machine.
The hosiery industry begun by Lee was to have a significant effect on Calverton for the next 350 years. The style of dwellings, the prosperity and the social structure of the village were all affected. As Calverton's principal industries, farming and hosiery went hand-in-hand. Many stockingers made a precarious living as both framework knitter and farmworker. By the early years of the nineteenth century over 400 stocking frames could be found in Calverton. Some cottagers had four or five frames in one room. The old pattern of cultivating land around the homestead persisted. Most villagers had a plot of land annexed to their cottages which housed a few cows, numerous fowls and the family pig, a cornerstone of the cottage economy. The larger farms were to be found outside the village and often on the edge of the parish. Ramsdale, Watchwood and Lodge Farm were all established after the Arnold Enclosures of 1789.
For the cottager, life was often hard and the working hours long. Frame rents and other expenses had to be paid and a twelve hour day might only gain a wage of five shillings per frame. If work could not be had the stockinger 'went on the land' . The average wage for a farm labourer at that time was barely two shillings a day and did not rise until the 1870's, the peak of farming prosperity in the nineteenth century.
Hard times in the framework knitting trade in the early part of the century precipitated the Luddite riots which led to a turbulent interval in the life of the area. They began in Arnold in February 1811 and quickly spread to surrounding villages. The stockingers removed certain minor parts from their frames to render them useless in order to bring pressure on the master hosiers who owned the frames and supplied the materials of production. Soon this led to actual frame -breaking and by the summer of 1811 200 frames had been destroyed in the area where the industry was centred and it continued on and off for the rest of the year, being well led and organised.
By February 1812, 4000 regular troops were billeted in Nottinghamshire and most village inns had men billeted there. Within a year of starting, over 1000 machines had been destroyed. Isolated trouble occurred after 1812 but it had died out by about 1820.
During the first part of the nineteenth century, the population of Calverton more than doubled in size to just over 1400 people in 1851. There was often more labour available than farming could absorb. Strong beer and the 'latch filter' penny were tempting alternatives for labourer and stockinger alike. The wife of the household was cook, baker, brewer, seamstress, sometimes framework knitter, and often mother to a dozen children. The children were also familiar with hard work. From an early age they were taught to seam or work the frames. Potato picking and turnip singling kept many a child away from school. Similarly, stone picking and crow scaring were an early introduction to work on the land.

Nathaniel married Elizabeth (M Wild) about 1668 in Woodborough, Nottingham, England. (Elizabeth (M Wild) was born in 1644.)

Nathaniel next married Dorothy (M Wild) about 1677 in Woodborough, Nottingham, England.