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Title: Any plasterers in your ancestry?
Post by: Sloe Gin on Saturday 15 January 22 16:28 GMT (UK)

Posted on Twitter by Katherine Hardy
@kardyology

"A note from Mr Gallop, the plasterer working on the Tate Gallery in 1897, uncovered during building work in 2013."

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FJDeDwGWYAQVE_M?format=jpg&name=900x900)

Title: Re: Any plasterers in your ancestry?
Post by: chris_49 on Saturday 15 January 22 19:45 GMT (UK)

Sometimes also called "pargeter"

Title: Re: Any plasterers in your ancestry?
Post by: Sloe Gin on Saturday 15 January 22 20:36 GMT (UK)

I thought someone would have tracked down all these good chaps in the censuses by now.

Title: Re: Any plasterers in your ancestry?
Post by: spendlove on Sunday 16 January 22 21:25 GMT (UK)

Hi,

Only found one possible

William Gallop born ant 1837 Hastings, living with wife Ellen living in St. Mary’s, Newington. occupation. Plasterer builders, worker.

Think that Warwick University hold the answer

https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/research_guides/family_history/plaster/naop/

Spendlove

Title: Re: Any plasterers in your ancestry?
Post by: Sloe Gin on Monday 17 January 22 11:06 GMT (UK)

I just thought it was an interesting note and had some potential for detective work.  How lovely to think of them raising a glass in the "Other World"!

Perhaps everyone is too busy with the 1921 census.

Title: Re: Any plasterers in your ancestry?
Post by: karen8 on Monday 17 January 22 15:18 GMT (UK)

I found a Henry Sainsbury born in 1840 in St Pancras, London living in Islington in 1901 who was a plasterer - he could be a possibility too. I'm not related just interested.  I checked back through previous censuses and it seems he always worked as a plasterer.