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Offline Maiden Stone

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Re: Nailer
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 21 March 19 21:22 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Ruskie on Wednesday 20 March 19 22:45 GMT (UK)
http://rmhh.co.uk/occup/n-o.html#N
The alternative definition, maintaining teeth (nails) on a carding-machine was unknown to me.
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« Reply #10 on: Thursday 21 March 19 22:40 GMT (UK) »
A Manicurist!  ;D

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« Reply #11 on: Thursday 21 March 19 23:24 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Skoosh on Thursday 21 March 19 22:40 GMT (UK)
A Manicurist!  ;D

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Isn't that "nail technician"?
I've read "more information" attached to the link posted by Ruskie. Making a standard nail took about 25 hammer-blows. A nailer could make 4 nails in a minute. Horseshoe-nails required 35 blows of a hammer.
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« Reply #12 on: Thursday 10 February 22 23:12 GMT (UK) »
Generations of nailers in the family in the West Bromwich area in the mid/late 1600s. The occupation is given on some of the baptism transcripts of the time and it would appear it was the family trade across the brothers and their sons.

Later families downstream that some their daughters married into were predominently iron workers (forgemen and puddlers etc, iron works clerks and managers) for the next few generations in the wider Dudley/West Brom/Bilston/Brierley Hill parishes up to the very late 1800s.
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