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Occupation Interests / Re: Do you have corkcutter ancestors?
« on: Monday 23 April 07 20:05 BST (UK) »
Hello
I'm new to all of this having typed "cork cutters" in to Google only to find a whole new world I never knew existed!
I have an ancestor, Nephale Pitt, who appears in the 1851 census as employing 2 men as a master cutter. 10 years later he has women, men and boys working for him in Stroud. I gather the cork came up the canal close by. I was told cork was used in the building industry when I asked at a local history day.
Wollers
I'm new to all of this having typed "cork cutters" in to Google only to find a whole new world I never knew existed!
I have an ancestor, Nephale Pitt, who appears in the 1851 census as employing 2 men as a master cutter. 10 years later he has women, men and boys working for him in Stroud. I gather the cork came up the canal close by. I was told cork was used in the building industry when I asked at a local history day.
Wollers