Tin Plate Workers

[Rena]

History of Hawkers licences

http://www.pedlars.info/history/84-1697-act.html

[youngtug]

He may have been exempted from needing a licence;

Exemption for Persons selling Acts of Parliament, Prayers, Gazettes or Papers,Fish, Fruit or Victuals, Real Workers or Makers of any Goods, Tinkers, Coopers, Glaziers, Plummers, Harness menders or other Persons usually trading in mending Kettles, Tubbs, Houshold Goods or Harness whatsoever from goeing about and carrying with him or them proper Materials for mending the same.

The list of exemptions shows clearly that local food sellers, makers of any goods etc were not taxed and that the tax was payable only by those who were travelling traders. The licence fee was not imposed on the traders goods but on the means by which he traded. The means differentiated him from other traders.


[From Rena's link]

[Cathcoo]

Great stuff, Kerry b! Thanks youngtug and all. From what Mayhew writes it's most likely that a tinware hawker would have sold the stuff from a stall at one of London's large markets, of which there were a couple in Southwark at the time. I don't remember him mentioning anything about such costermongers having licences. I don't think they would have bothered with such things. They didn't even bother getting married and often got together as young as 14 or 15.

[AllyBL]

Hi Kerry

A 3X Great Grandfather John, his wife and daughter were listed as Tin Plate workers in Surrey in the 1861 Census. John was always a tin Plate worker.

In doing some researching I found this this book in the National Library of Australia that might be of interest to you.

A history of the Tin Plate Workers alias Wire Workers Company of the City of London
Bib ID   2160048
Format   BookBook
Author   
Warner, Oliver, 1903-1976
 
Description   [London] 1964
xi, 88 p. illus., col. facsim., port. 24 cm.
Notes   
Bibliography: p. 83-84.

Subjects   Worshipful Company of Tin Plate Workers alias Wire Workers of the City of London.

Hope this helps
ABL

[kerryb]

Ooh ABL

thank you that looks interesting, I shall look into that.

Kerry

[robbob103]

Hi all
I just registered with roots chat today and came across this thread.

It grabbed my attention because tin plate work is part of my job description, along with coppersmith and sheet metal worker. There isn't a great deal of difference between them.

That overlap has always been there as shown in the list of my ancestors with the occupations they attributed to themselves.

William Fuller 4x great grandfather - brazier, coppersmith
Edward Fuller 3x great grandfather - brazier, coppersmith, tin plate worker
John B Fuller   2nd great grandfather - tin plate worker, iron worker
John T Fuller great grandfather - tin plate worker
Arthur H Fuller grandfather - tinsmith, sheet metal worker
Arthur N Fuller - father - sheet metal worker, tinsmith
Robert Fuller (myself) - sheet metal worker, tinsmith, coppersmith

The attachment is an old advert for Edward Fuller

It's been fascinating reading the other info posted on this thread.