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Whitesmith
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Daphne | Report | 23 Mar 2006 20:30 |
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Please does any one know what W.D. after Whitesmith means?Know Whitesmith is a worker in tin Thank you Daphne |
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Unknown | Report | 23 Mar 2006 20:47 |
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Daphne Where have you got this information from? nell |
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Janet in Yorkshire | Report | 23 Mar 2006 20:48 |
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Could it be the enumerator's marks to indicate category of employment ? Jay |
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Daphne | Report | 23 Mar 2006 21:06 |
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It was written on a friends death cert she sent for.And she saud she looked it up .Where I do not know But said a whitesmith was a worker in tin.I am trying to find what the W.D. after it means Daphne |
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Daphne | Report | 23 Mar 2006 21:28 |
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Thank you have found on a site WD stands for War Department or Works Department. site www.gendocs.demon.co.uk Daphne |
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Unknown | Report | 24 Mar 2006 06:55 |
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Karen That's interesting. No whitesmiths in my family, but my grandfather WAS a blacksmith. He was apprenticed to the village blacksmith whose great-great grandfather was my grandfather's great-great-uncle's godfather! Granddad joined the army as a blacksmith just before the 1st WW, but when he left the army he became a lorry driver as cars were fast replacing horses and his letters describe one transport manager selling all his horses to buy lorries. Granddad did lots of work during the depression - farm labouring, shoe repairing etc but he did get to use his blacksmith skills making a pair of wrought-iron gates. nell |
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