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Offline Jaki

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What is a Whitesmith???
« on: Monday 24 May 04 11:43 BST (UK) »
Hi

Just received my great grandmother's death certificate today and her father is list as having the occupation of a whitesmith.

Has anyone seen this before and could they please tell me what it is. Every other ancestor i have found has been either a labourer or a miner and haven't come across this one before.

Thanks

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Re:What is a Whitesmith???
« Reply #1 on: Monday 24 May 04 12:11 BST (UK) »
Hi


A white smith is a tin smith

From dictionary:
A person who forges things out of tin. Tinsmith.

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Re:What is a Whitesmith???
« Reply #2 on: Monday 24 May 04 14:00 BST (UK) »
Hi there

According to my Oracle

Whitesmith
(n.) One who works in tinned or galvanized iron, or white iron; a tinsmith.
(n.) A worker in iron who finishes or polishes the work, in distinction from one who forges it

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Re:What is a Whitesmith???
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 25 May 04 04:28 BST (UK) »
Thanks Tara and Chris

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<i>OK Charles Henry Kingwell when did you arrive in Australia????</i><br /><b>Coates</b> - Warwickshire, Staffordshire??<br /><b>Hall</b> - Warwickshire, Yorkshire<br /><b>Hirst</b> - Yorkshire<br /><b>Kingwell, Bulley, Bunce</b> - Devon<br /><b>Sample</b> - Northumberland, Durham<br /><b>Shipp</b> - Gloucester<br /><b>MacGillivray, Grant, Forbes, McBean</b> - Scotland
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