Tinplate

[pussy cat willum]

Can anyone tell me please what is a Tinplate Worker? This is on all birth certificates of Grt Grandads children, except my grandmothers where it says Tinplate Journeyman.Was an apprenticeship needed for this? and where would I find records? Hoping some one can enlighten me .

[t mo]

hi pcw
and welcome to rootschat , as to tinplate workers do a google search several sites come up including the worshipful company of tinplate workers alias wire workers . most tinplate back then i would say was used in domestic houses such as plates and jugs and so forth .
regards
trevor

[stanmapstone]

From "A Dictionary of Occupational Terms" Tinplate Worker, tinsmith, tin worker; a sheet metal worker who works in tinplate i.e. sheet metal coated with tin, cutting, rolling, raising, hollowing, and shaping tinplate, and closing rims, soldering, seaming or riveting joints of articles, e.g. domestic utensils, and cans for food preserving. A Tin Hollow-ware maker is a tinplate worker who makes up from tinplate or sheet tin, articles of hollow-ware, e.g. water cans, coffee pots, teapots, kettles, cooking utensils.



Stan

[Redroger]

Every railway works and major locomotive depot had at least one tinsmith up to after 1960. Railway depots were virtually self contained and produced their own lamps and cans etc. made from sheet metal. Some engine cabs were patched with the same material.

[ernestjames]

Hi Pussy cat willow
Where were they living and what kind of time frame? There was a significant tinplate industry in South Wales before the Great War, for example. The tinplate was used for tin cans for the food industry and there were significant exports. The process used was hot dipping of the steel plates and they lost out  after WW1 because the Germans and Americans developed a more efficient process of electrolysis. Inhaling the fumes of the hot dipping process was not very healthy either.
best wishes
ernestjames

[jacqlineue]

I am also looking into the Hales family of this area and we have tin plate workers in our line.  I wonder if it is the same family.

Regards

Jac

[jeffers27]

Hope this helps,
jeff

http://www.unsworthfamilyhistory.com/TINPLATE%20WORKERS.html