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Paul E

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Smiths who are smiths
« on: Wednesday 26 January 05 10:15 GMT (UK) »
Hi

Just a point of interest...
Of the 363,298 Smiths registered on the 1881 census, only

635 are described as smiths
1300 are described as blacksmiths
1 is described as a smithy

The other 360,000 were obviously just masquerading!

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Re: Smiths who are smiths
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 26 January 05 10:28 GMT (UK) »
Hi Paul

You forgot coppersmith, tinsmith, whitesmith ............... doubt it will make a significant difference though :D

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Re: Smiths who are smiths
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 26 January 05 10:35 GMT (UK) »
Southwark Surrey: BUTCHER

By way of compensation...

12,410 butchers in the country, of whom only 45 are called Butcher (but 4 of them are in Surreyand 1 in Southwark!) ;)

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Re: Smiths who are smiths
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 26 January 05 10:39 GMT (UK) »
Just a pity they're not mine!  Things might be a whole lot easier if they were .......... butchers were usually pretty static! :D

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Re: Smiths who are smiths
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 27 January 05 17:40 GMT (UK) »
A nice term I've seen for a smith is a HAMMERMAN

no doubting what he does!

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Re: Smiths who are smiths
« Reply #5 on: Friday 17 June 05 13:40 BST (UK) »
It would be interesting to know how many Joneses were smiths! Were they known as Jones the Smith?
Jones, Mantle; Radnorshire
Russell, Stonehouse, Agar; Yorkshire/Durham
Brown, Fair; Durham,  
Little, Cumberland
Morris, Woolley, Owens; Montgomeryshire.

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Re: Smiths who are smiths
« Reply #6 on: Friday 17 June 05 13:45 BST (UK) »
Welcome to Rootschat RuthieB - we like your style already! :)

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« Reply #7 on: Friday 17 June 05 14:06 BST (UK) »
I only ask as lots of my Joneses are smiths and a couple of Browns are smiths, but I've no Smiths in my tree. I should be thankful!
Jones, Mantle; Radnorshire
Russell, Stonehouse, Agar; Yorkshire/Durham
Brown, Fair; Durham,  
Little, Cumberland
Morris, Woolley, Owens; Montgomeryshire.

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Re: Smiths who are smiths
« Reply #8 on: Friday 17 June 05 14:22 BST (UK) »
And of course, aren't we fortunate that there isn;t an occupation called a 'jones'? :)

For the record, 1881 is showing 311 Jones who are smiths and a further 611 who are listed as blacksmiths - then, as casalguidi said, there's always the coppersmiths etc etc! :)
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