Any plasterers in your ancestry?

[Sloe Gin]

Posted on Twitter by Katherine Hardy
@kardyology

"A note from Mr Gallop, the plasterer working on the Tate Gallery in 1897, uncovered during building work in 2013."

[chris_49]

Sometimes also called "pargeter"

[Sloe Gin]

I thought someone would have tracked down all these good chaps in the censuses by now.

[spendlove]

Hi,

Only found one possible

William Gallop born ant 1837 Hastings, living with wife Ellen living in St. Mary’s, Newington. occupation. Plasterer builders, worker.

Think that Warwick University hold the answer

https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/research_guides/family_history/plaster/naop/

Spendlove

[Sloe Gin]

I just thought it was an interesting note and had some potential for detective work.  How lovely to think of them raising a glass in the "Other World"!

Perhaps everyone is too busy with the 1921 census.

[karen8]

I found a Henry Sainsbury born in 1840 in St Pancras, London living in Islington in 1901 who was a plasterer - he could be a possibility too. I'm not related just interested.  I checked back through previous censuses and it seems he always worked as a plasterer.