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We called it a spinning wheel during my teen years in the 1890s.
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Spinning wheel is soooo last century!
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So the 47 in siggy47 doesn't mean eighteen forty seven then?..
...damn, I thought I'd finally nailed it.
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I am the seventh son of the 47th Siggy.
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Great, a clue. I'll dig out my bible and see who begot who.
Who knows, maybe Satoshi named the first block Genesis after you!
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Well I'll be a sonovagun.
That gypsy lady...she was right!
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I also Googled to find out what a spinning Jenny is
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With that bombshell, we're going to have to revise our age guesstimate of Siggy!
If it's any consolation - although I wasn't sent up a chimney as a child (they tried, I was too big) I'm old enough to know what a Spinning Jenny was:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Spinning_jenny.jpg
No, it's not in my man cave - I threw it out when my exercise bike arrived!