I Am the Resurrection and the Life

Abstract

One Samuel Courtauld cashed in on the nation wearin g black and turned most of his mills at Pebmarsh, Braintree, Bocking and Halstead in Essex over to making black cloth – thus the Courtaulds empire really grew. Also it was the era when undertaking became a profession and they took the deceased away from the place of death to d ress it and return it to the house. Previous to this it was the domain of the women in a family to prepare a body for burial and the local carpenter would make the coffin.