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Occupation Interests / Re: Tin Plate Workers
« on: Thursday 25 September 14 23:14 BST (UK)  »
Apologies for the error, thank you Pejic for pointing that out.

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Occupation Interests / Re: Tin Plate Workers
« on: Wednesday 24 September 14 23:15 BST (UK)  »
Hi Lydart

Thank you for your reply regarding the Redbrook tin works  :) , I'm following your suggestion.  Meanwhile have found an article 'The Introduction of the Tin Plate Industry' reprinted from the Glos. Society for Industrial Archeology Journal for 2003 at www.gsia.org,. Also have found interesting old photos @ www.sungreen.co.uk and www.coghlan.co.uk.

Missmoss

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Occupation Interests / Re: Tin Plate Workers
« on: Friday 29 August 14 23:44 BST (UK)  »
My first foray into a forum so please forgive any mistakes...I have a copy of my grandfather's birth certificate (Charles William Jones born 25th December 1864 Portway, Warminster, Wiltshire). Father's name Henry Jones, 'Tin worker and Umbrella Mender', mother Mary Jones, formerly O'Donel.  I also have a copy of Charles William Jones marriage certificate April 25th 1894 on which his father is named Charles Henry Jones, Tin worker. My father told me that my great grandfather lived in a cottage at Tintern, Monmouthshire but I've found no evidence as yet regarding him or Mary - work in progress.  I'm beginning to feel they may have been itinerant. (Charles William joined the police in Bournemouth and later became bodyguard/private detective to Empress Eugenie at Farnborough where my father was born).  There cannot have been much of a living to be made from umbrella mending!

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