What is the most interesting occupation in your family tree? (#2)

[philipsearching]

My GGM had a granddaughter who was a tin box machine feeder in 1901 in Carlisle at age 17.  Can anyone explain what that is?  The enunmerator has written something above it, but it isn't legible.  RedFox

By the 1900s tin boxes were made by machines - some to cut the sheet metal and others to fold the metal and seal the joints.  At that time the production line was not fully automated so people would have been needed to take materials from one machine to another.  I would guess your lady probably took the cut flat tin shapes and stacked them in the feeder of the machine which pressed the flat metal into the box shape.

All the best
Philip

[gales]

My Gt Grandfather was a  Silver Comb and Brooch maker.   Skate maker,  Saw maker and  Cutlery manufacturer.   Wonder what he did in his spare time, he had 11 children.

[mc8]

 Wonder what he did in his spare time, he had 11 children.

nothing that can be braodcast before 9pm

[Katie123]

Mc8 that reply actually made me laugh out-loud! 

[Elizabeth Revel]

Hi Gales,

In my searches this afternoon I came across a reference to this book which you might find interesting.

      "The Huguenot Legacy: English Silver 1680-1760" by Christopher Hartop

Beth

[behindthefrogs]

I have three ancestors who were Cobblers.  Two of them despite the views expressed above were shoe makers NOT shoe repairers.  The third was a footballer who played for Northampton Town.

David

[mc8]

I've just found a topical one

listed in the 1851 census as 'an artist in fireworks'

[Romilly]

On the Swansea side of my family, I have a "spelter smelter", a tin-pickler, & a roll-turner, (I assume that involved tin as well

On the Lancashire side, my Great Grandfather was a Slate Quarrier & Beer House Keeper, - (although presumably not at the same time).

Romilly

[behindthefrogs]

Most beer house keepers had a main occupation and so he could well have been doing both jobs.  He would probably have been selling beer in his front room having purchased his 2 guinea licence.

David