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Title: What is this profession please?
Post by: atticus on Friday 22 February 13 14:55 GMT (UK)

I have a letter of Administration and next to the name it has this profession, I think I know what it says but what like to double check, so I am on the right track. So any help, thank you.

word highlighted in box so you get the contect of word

Thank you

I am hoping the image comes out!!

Title: Re: What is this profession please?
Post by: ..claire.. on Friday 22 February 13 15:25 GMT (UK)

Hi

Would it be farmer  or Turner ?

claire

Title: Re: What is this profession please?
Post by: ..claire.. on Friday 22 February 13 15:30 GMT (UK)

Hi

There is a John Halsall in 1891 census bn Liverpool living Cheshire, occ: Iron Turner.
Could this be right man

claire

Title: Re: What is this profession please?
Post by: Pels. on Friday 22 February 13 15:31 GMT (UK)

Going by the image, I would go with Turner.

Pels.

Title: Re: What is this profession please?
Post by: atticus on Friday 22 February 13 15:37 GMT (UK)

Hi Claire,
I think it is him but wanted to make sure that I was reading the name correctly. I first read the occupation as  Farmer and when I looked at the census Turner so I wanted to make sure I was not just trying to make it all fit to suit my family. Also the census is Crewe which  is where the John in the letter lived!


Thank you

Title: Re: What is this profession please?
Post by: Geoff-E on Friday 22 February 13 15:38 GMT (UK)

He probably worked at the Crewe works of the London and North Western Railway Co. :)

Title: Re: What is this profession please?
Post by: atticus on Friday 22 February 13 15:43 GMT (UK)

Thanks Pels.

Geoff, that is interesting. I happened to go through Crewe yesterday on my way back from a research trip to Liverpool. Was that the main place of work for a Turner in Crewe? What is a Turner?

Thank you for all the help

Title: Re: What is this profession please?
Post by: youngtug on Friday 22 February 13 15:48 GMT (UK)

Quote from: atticus on Friday 22 February 13 15:43 GMT (UK)

Thanks Pels.
  What is a Turner?

Thank you for all the help

A turner is a person who uses/operates a lathe to turn round  objects made usually of  wood or metal, although a lot of other materials can and are turned.

Title: Re: What is this profession please?
Post by: Geoff-E on Friday 22 February 13 19:33 GMT (UK)

Quote from: atticus on Friday 22 February 13 15:43 GMT (UK)

Geoff, that is interesting. I happened to go through Crewe yesterday on my way back from a research trip to Liverpool. Was that the main place of work for a Turner in Crewe?

It's almost true to say that there was no Crewe till the railway arrived.

"At its height, Crewe Works employed over 20,000 people"  :o http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crewe_Works

The works had its own gasworks, brickworks, foundry etc - you can get some idea of its extent here (select on right the 1898 1:2500 map) http://www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html?coords=369600,355800

I image all the terraced streets to the north of the works would have been built by the railway.

:)