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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: [Lon] Occupation Mail Manufacturer
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 18:29:01 +0100
In-Reply-To: <008101c42490$f662d7e0$6a1e2552@emachines580>


In message <008101c42490$f662d7e0$>, Mary Newman
<> writes
>> Anne Peat wrote:
>>
>> > Now, I have just got a death cert. for a widow of a MAIL MANUFACTURER
>> > ( 1855, Staffordshire). Has anyone any idea what that could be?
>> > Anne
>
>
>Could this be a Nail Manufacturer? There were plenty of nailers in the
>Black Country (roughly Wolverhampton, Bilston, Willenhall, Walsall,
>Wendesbury, Dudley, Tipton. Oldbury. Googling for "nail manufacturer" +
>Staffordshire also brings up one name in Lichfield.
And you can see the job being done, as was, in the Black Country Museum
at Dudley, where they have reconstruiction of both houses, shops,
cinemas and workshops. I have a six inch hunk of cut nail as a souvenir
of my visit (from the keen family historian working the forge)
--
Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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