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renard
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« on: Wednesday 06 August 08 09:48 BST (UK) »
Where would a blacksmith journeyman living in Ruthrieston and
working as a coachsmith [railway] likely to be working in the early
1900s was there a smiddy at Ruthrieston.
I am trying to connect him to Oldmeldrum how likely is it that he would be working this far from home especially as Oldmeldrum had two smiddys at this period in time or is it possible that one of the Oldmeldrum smiddys had the same owner as Aberdeen city one
I have found him as apprentice blacksmith late 1800s
coachsmith early 1900s
foreman blacksmith 1920s moving address but no more than a couple of miles and always in Old Macher

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Re: railway
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 09 August 08 20:40 BST (UK) »
If your ancestor was a "coachsmith (railway) surely it is likely that he worked for a railway company.  The Great North of Scotland Railway had its workshops - where carriages and wagons would have been made or repaired - first at Kittybrewster (north of Aberdeen) and from sometime in the early 1900s at Inverurie. I see that you are trying to connect him to Oldmeldrum.  There was a short branch line from Oldmeldrum to Inverurie which he could have used for travel to work - if he was a railway employee he probably got some sort of concessionary fare.

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Re: railway
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 09 August 08 21:11 BST (UK) »
Hi Jessden
                 Thanks for that its possible will try to make some sense of it he is a bit of a mystery on census sometimes coach smith sometimes blacksmith but always living in Old machar
moving address but only couple of streets supposedly working in
Old Meldrum at one time but cant find him living there and it seems quite a distance to travel in the early 1900s

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