In message <000301c5235c$4ae4d000$48fe2a50@pbncomputer>, Mark Ware <ware1973@tiscali.co.uk> writes >Dear all > >I have come across an occupation called “Smith sticker coach”. Would I >be right in thinking that this would be somebody who applied decorations >to carriages? Any info would be gratefully received. No - any decoration was applied by a coach painter. What you have, i think, is a smith-striker -in other words, the blacksmith's assistant who wielded the heavy hammer ('when I nod my head, hit it - OW!) Coach is a statistician's addition presumably to show he was employed in a railway engine/rolling stock making works. If this is at Wolverton or Bradwell, then for sure he was in the Railway Works there,. -- Eve McLaughlin Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society