Generations of nailers in the family in the West Bromwich area in the mid/late 1600s. The occupation is given on some of the baptism transcripts of the time and it would appear it was the family trade across the brothers and their sons.
Later families downstream that some their daughters married into were predominently iron workers (forgemen and puddlers etc, iron works clerks and managers) for the next few generations in the wider Dudley/West Brom/Bilston/Brierley Hill parishes up to the very late 1800s.
