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Occupation Interests / Re: Do you have corkcutter ancestors?
« on: Sunday 24 September 06 23:50 BST (UK) »
Cork Cutters.
This occupation vexed me for quite a while going though all of the present day uses of cork (Bottle stoppers, Floor Tiles, etc) until I lit a cigarette one day and I suddenly realised the answer was under my nose all of the time. Well 20 times a day anyway.
Cork Tipped Cigarettes!!!
Not made with Cork these days, but they were in the past and its why cigarette filters look like they do.
Further research with the 1851 census address revealed that they worked (and lived) at the WD & HO Wills cigarette factory in Bristol, England.
So the tobacconist link is quite correct.
Neil.
This occupation vexed me for quite a while going though all of the present day uses of cork (Bottle stoppers, Floor Tiles, etc) until I lit a cigarette one day and I suddenly realised the answer was under my nose all of the time. Well 20 times a day anyway.
Cork Tipped Cigarettes!!!
Not made with Cork these days, but they were in the past and its why cigarette filters look like they do.
Further research with the 1851 census address revealed that they worked (and lived) at the WD & HO Wills cigarette factory in Bristol, England.
So the tobacconist link is quite correct.
Neil.