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Offline SteveJW

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Nailer
« on: Wednesday 20 March 19 22:32 GMT (UK) »
Can anyone tell me what the occupation Nailer was, please see attachment
Appears to be a lot of people in Wombourn 1851HO 107/2017 with this as their occupation, possibly ancestors

Thanks

Steve
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Re: Nailer
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 20 March 19 22:45 GMT (UK) »

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Re: Nailer
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 21 March 19 02:46 GMT (UK) »
Until I saw the history of Wombourn, I would have said your ancestor probably had a furnace, bought different thicknesses of iron bars and his whole family helped him cut and hammer different types of homemade nails into shape.

I now think the family could have worked in a nearby slit mill that specialised in making nails.

Different types of nails would be needed in the industrial revolution and additionally I believe tons of nails were shipped all over the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wombourne

http://www.sedgleymanor.com/trades/nailmakers2.html
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Re: Nailer
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 21 March 19 02:53 GMT (UK) »
Lane, Burgess: Cheshire. Finney, Rogers, Gilman:Derbys
Cochran, Nicol, Paton, Bruce:Scotland. Bertolle:London
Bainbridge, Christman, Jeffs: Staffs

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Re: Nailer
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 21 March 19 05:46 GMT (UK) »

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Re: Nailer
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 21 March 19 07:27 GMT (UK) »
In Scotland it was used for a nail-maker. Linlithgow was a centre of boot & shoe making & had many nailers in the town!

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Re: Nailer
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 21 March 19 10:07 GMT (UK) »
Ruskie and others thanks for the prompt response
Steve
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Boyes     Beverley, Hull
Allison     Beverley, Hull
Bowser   East Yorkshire
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Re: Nailer
« Reply #7 on: Thursday 21 March 19 11:09 GMT (UK) »
My wife was bought up in Wombourn and her ancestors are all from Sedgley, Netherton and around. Lots of nailers in her tree; mostly women and children but occasionally men too. I have always assumed it to be piecework.

It is hard to believe the difference between "then" and "now". I remember taking the overnight train (c1961) from Euston to North Wales through Birmingham and Wolverhampton. It was late evening on a raised embankment outside Wolverhampton when we passed small foundries with the furnaces glowing bright orange and men still working in what looked like Dante's Inferno.

Today there are acres of wasteland, distribution centres and housing estates. Not much evidence of work though!
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Re: Nailer
« Reply #8 on: Thursday 21 March 19 21:00 GMT (UK) »
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