Tin Plate Workers

[Lydart]

I'm now starting to get a little confused ... was a tinplate worker the same as a tinsmith ?  Isn't the first to do wth plating steel with tin so it doesn't rust, whereas the second is making things out of tin ? 

[kerryb]

Good point Lydart

Now I'm confused, really must make some time to do some googling. 

Kerry

[millymcb]

Hi Kerry - I've got some tin-plate workers too.  Mine were Manchester (Ardwick/Ancoats/Beswick).  Have you tried google books at http://books.google.co.uk/ 

There are some old books on there which give some info such as these

http://www.google.co.uk/books?id=Fq4AAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA319&dq=%22tin+plate+worker%22

http://www.google.co.uk/books?id=wWgJAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA399&dq=%22tin+plate+worker%22


Milly

[Romilly]

Hi Kerry,

Most of the Tin-plate & Tin Workers in my tree were on the Welsh side, - in & around Swansea.

I've found a lot out about the trade from GENUKI, - also this Link details all of the different jobs in the Tin trade:

http://www.kidwellyhistory.co.uk/Industry/TinWorkers.htm

Best Wishes, Romilly.

[kerryb]

Thanks Milly and Romilly, I shall have a closer look at those links.

I did a google search yesterday but didn't come up with anything particularly helpful so your answers are timely. 

Kerry

[Olly]

Hi
My great grandfather was a tinsmith.
He had his own business and employed 2 or three men/boys in Liverpool.
He went on to make utensils for bakeries, and had at least 2 shops in the area.

He also had several brothers who were in the same business but they moved to the West Ham area.
This was in the 1880's.

Thanks for the info you have all given. I will research further into his occupation/business.

Regards
Olly

[failsafe]

When you do your research I think you have to look at tinplate mines, since this is the raw material he would have used.

http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Tin+Processing

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/southwest/sites/pontarddulais/pages/history_2.shtml

http://www.cornish-mining.org.uk/story/tin.htm

http://homepages.tesco.net/~k.wasley/Tinmines.htm

Mainly Welsh, but spread to the sothern counties

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[kerryb]

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there are some useful and interesting links there, particularly the Cornish one.  That is where the Traies family first originated from and was there they first started working with Tin. 

Kerry

[failsafe]

Thank you Kerry
I try to please
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