Seed Crusher Glasgow 1880s

[Bridielizzie]

Have ancestor occupation, "Oil work Clerk", then "Seed crusher", seems unusual occupation for Glasgow 1880s.
He  later migrated to America, looking for hints to where he might have gone. Struggling with Shipping Lists.Any hints welcome
Thanks

[jorose]

Some types of oil were made from pressing seeds, including macassar oil (popular victorian hair product, made from ylang-ylang seeds although cheaper alternatives were around); that might fit with the two occupations you've found.

http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=home
 - you might be able to find him on the 1900 census here, that should give you the year of his immigration to the US.

[Bridielizzie]

Thank you jorose for the info and website link which I found very useful.
Found baptism of a daughter in Manhattan New York. Will take It further.
Thanks again.

[stockman fred]

Hi,on an industrial scale, I think oil from oilseeds was used for a number of purposes such as Linseed for linseed oil, Linoleum, oilcloth and paint manufacture. Nowadays, oilseed rape is similarly used for margerine and biofuel, etc.
Once the oil was extracted, the residue provided a valuable source of animal feed and was sold in flat pressed slabs which had to be broken up in a cake-cracking machine on the farm. When we were kids in the 1960s, dad still bought our cattle feed from BOCM- the British Oil and Cake Mills.
Fred 

[Bridielizzie]

Thanks Stockman Fred , very interesting subject. Nice to know more about the job.
Once again Thank you.