Do you have corkcutter ancestors?

[corkcutter]

Thanks to mg and rossi

Your ancestors will now be on the index.  Check it out at http://corkcutter.info

Cheryl

[Wollers]

Hello

I'm new to all of this having typed "cork cutters" in to Google only to find a whole new world  I never knew existed!

I have an ancestor, Nephale  Pitt, who appears in the 1851 census as employing 2 men as a master cutter. 10 years later he has women, men and boys working for him in Stroud. I gather the cork came up the canal close by. I was told cork was used in the building industry when I asked at a local history day.

  Wollers

[corkcutter]

Hello,  I was pleased to see your message about Nephale and am just about to add him to the corkcutter index at http://corkcutter.info

Have you checked out the index on the site yet.  There is another Pitt in Gloucestershire.  Would he be connected to your line?

Cheryl

[BAZZER54]

Hello  Folks,,, i'm  new here,,,,,,i was told about this Topic while browsing Chat by Karen,,,,Ty Karen, and a very good thread it is to.

My Cork Cutter was my G Grandfather William Gregg b1853 of Oxford St, Stepney, London,

his Father also a William was described in the 1881 census as OCC "Mineral Water", and on another cert as a "Ginger Beer Maker", so there is a reason there why these two should be together maybe in a business together,,,,researching this at the moment.

On the tobacco Question my mother would refer to her cigarettes as cork tipped and i never gave this a thought  until i read this thread..... were cigarettes tipped with a cork filter at one time and did cork cutters make them,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,?




 

[exessexgirl]

My paternal gt gt grandfather. His name Richard White. He is shown on the 1891 census living at 12 Meard Street Strand Westminster, his age 34 yrs. Occupation: Cork Cutter. He had a son Richard age 14 yrs, who also had his occupation shown as Corkcutter, but apparently it was crossed out.  Lyn

[TamarG]

I'm new to this so please bear with me. My GGgrandfather is listed as an apprentice on the 1841 census and lived at an address in the Mile End Road East London with a whole gang of cork cutters, he was then 19yrs.
On subsequent census' until 1861 he was listed as a cork cutter (he died in 1866). In the 1871 census a 19yr old son was listed as a cork cutter and then in 1881- 1901 another son(my ggrandfather) was seen to be a cork cutter.
I,m interested to know where their actual place of occupation was.

[corkcutter]

Hello,

Glad to welcome a new person interested in corkcutters!  Please log on to my Corkcutters of England website to find out more about the trade and see if your ancestor is already listed on the index. 

Cheryl

[TamarG]

Hello Cheryl

I have looked on your website but my people are not listed. They were Thomas Whalen 19yrs Apprentice 1841, Charles, his son 19yrs,1871 and then another son Henry 28yrs in1881(he was listed as an umbrella maker in the 1871 census. They lived in the Bethnal Green area of London.

Prehaps you would like to add them to your list.

Sheila 

[corkcutter]

Thanks Sheila.  I am adding them right now to the index.

Cheryl