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Title: My Grandad and Grt Grandad's occupation
Post by: anniecranky on Monday 08 February 10 15:34 GMT (UK)
I have found information on my grt grandfather (William Earl who was born in Ireland and his occupation was a Sugar Boiler, he then went to Scotland where my grandfather (William George Earl) was then born, on the census he by this time had moved to Salford in Manchester and his occupation is shown as a Brattine Cloth Maker, would anyone be able to tell me what these jobs were.

Thank you.
Annie  :)
Title: Re: My Grandad and Grt Grandad's occupation
Post by: stanmapstone on Monday 08 February 10 16:35 GMT (UK)
A Brattice Cloth Maker coated jute fabric with tar by machine, for use in lining mine shafts and airways.
A sugar boiler, refined sugar by heating liquor in a vacuum pan with steam  to produce crystallised sugar

Stan
Title: Re: My Grandad and Grt Grandad's occupation
Post by: Skoosh on Monday 08 February 10 16:37 GMT (UK)
Annie, I think this should be Brattice Cloth, a Brattice was a partition in a pit made of timber/cloth as part of the air circulation system. Presumably the cloth had to be strong & fireproof!...Skoosh.
Title: Re: My Grandad and Grt Grandad's occupation
Post by: Indaloman on Monday 08 February 10 17:52 GMT (UK)
Interestingly Tate of Tate & Lyle moved his sugar making plant from Scotland to Plaistow East London I wonder if your GG/d was employed by him
Title: Re: My Grandad and Grt Grandad's occupation
Post by: Skoosh on Monday 08 February 10 23:01 GMT (UK)
Tate & Lyle had a Sugarhouse in Greenock.....skoosh.
Title: Re: My Grandad and Grt Grandad's occupation
Post by: anniecranky on Tuesday 09 February 10 10:09 GMT (UK)
Hi Stan, Skoosh and Indaloman and thanks for your info, very interesting and all fits in, especially Tate and Lyle in Greenoch as that was the birth place of my Grandad so his Dad must have come over from Ireland and worked in the Sugarhouse......this is facinating and also stopping me working, ha! 

The Brattice Cloth maker is another lovely piece of news as I can now build up a picture.

Cheers
Annie
Title: Re: My Grandad and Grt Grandad's occupation
Post by: carol8353 on Tuesday 09 February 10 10:32 GMT (UK)
Here's a website about Sugar Makers and Boilers,a very hard and hot job.
Lots of Germans seem to have come across to London to do this in the mid 1800's.

http://home.clara.net/mawer/sitemap.html

Carol
Title: Re: My Grandad and Grt Grandad's occupation
Post by: anniecranky on Tuesday 09 February 10 11:42 GMT (UK)
Hi Carol,

thank you for the website for Sugar makers and Boilers, I shall print the info off and have a good read.

Annie  :)
Title: Re: My Grandad and Grt Grandad's occupation
Post by: Mal2010 on Friday 14 May 10 22:11 BST (UK)
If he was from Islandmagee in County Antrim check out a site called something like Earls Family Chronicles - google Earls Islandmagee.