An Ironmonger was a retail shopkeeper who sold tools, household utensils, cutlery, general hardware, and in country districts, agricultural machinery and seeds. Would this not be known as a Hardware Store in the USA? Regards Stan Mapstone

Personally, I think everyone should have at least one old occupations site like this on their browser favourites list. http://www.rmhh.co.uk/occup/ Good Hunting, Anne in Canada ----- Original Message ----- From: <Stanmapstone@aol.com> To: <ENG-DURHAM-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 5:51 PM Subject: Re: [ENG-DUR] Ironmonger > An Ironmonger was a retail shopkeeper who sold tools, household utensils, > cutlery, general hardware, and in country districts, agricultural machinery and > seeds. > Would this not be known as a Hardware Store in the USA? > Regards Stan Mapstone > > > ==== ENG-DURHAM Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe send the command unsubscribe to > ENG-DURHAM-L-request@rootsweb.com (if in mail mode) > or ENG-DURHAM-D-request@rootsweb.com (if in digest mode.) > >