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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Yorkshire (North Riding) => England => Yorkshire (North Riding) Lookup Requests => Topic started by: dumork on Friday 15 January 21 19:34 GMT (UK)
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John Emslie and Mary Simpson, both from the Aberdeen area, married in Scarborough in 1877. They remained in the town until 1911 at least, raising four children ...
John (b1855/6 Glasgow) is a journeyman metal Engraver, with suggestions of Artist and Sculptor in census entries. Yet he is described as a Worker, so presumably in employment.
My question is: where in Scarborough was there a business or workshop which could have employed John Emslie over such a long period, and what did they make?
My interest is that John Emslie may have been my granny's father, through a pre-marital relationship with an Annie Flett. Granny's birth certificate names John Emslie, engraver, as father.
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I immediately wondered whether he could have been involved in the manufacture of Whitby Jet jewellery?
https://www.whitbyjet.co.uk/about-jet-read-more
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I immediately wondered whether he could have been involved in the manufacture of Whitby Jet jewellery?
That was my first thought.
Bulmers directory of 1890 for Scarborough, available on Genuki, has a list of a dozen "Jet Ornament Manufacturers etc"
On the 1891 & 1901 census he is down as a copperplate engraver, in which case the same directory list 2 entries for "Engravers"