I have a book "Jewellery Making in Birmingham 1750-1995" by Shena Mason, ISBN 1-86077-079-7, which I bought from a bookstore in Birmingham. It is very interesting to read and talks about some of the Jewellers, Silversmiths, with pictures and photographs, who were around during these years. I recommend this book if you are interested in this trade. I does give a list of Jewellers/Silversmiths who were Members of the Birmingham Jewellery and Silversmiths' Association in 1915, and their addresses. This does not cover all the jewellery traders if they didn't belong to the association..and there were quite a few. I have checked the above list and came up with this: Arnold .. none Aucott, William 8 Augusta Street, JQ (Jewellery Quarter) Georgina Goodby Fisher [email protected] formerly from Sutton Coldfield now in Orange, California 6 miles east of Disneyland _www.goodbytree.org_ (http://www.goodbytree.org/) Goons member #418 One Name Study Goodby In a message dated 7/20/2008 3:04:37 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: The jewellers that I am interested in are Thomas Acott and Alfred Arnold. Arnold worked for Acott and took over the firm on his death. Arnold migrated to Adelaide, South Australia in 1879 but the firm is supposed to have continued operating in his name for several years longer. ----- Original Message ----- From: Lesley To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 11:57 PM Subject: Re: [B'ham] silversmiths ----- Original Message ----- >From Stephen > I found a member of my distant family worked as a silversmith. Would > this have been a good job? I'm wondering whether when he died, would > there likely have been enough money to support his widow or would she > have had to work or go to the workhouse?> I would think that very much depended on his employer as some of them were good and others not so! Can you give us any more information such as names and dates, etc. If you know who they worked for and what to find out more then Birmingham Central Library archives holds a lot of information Lesley **************Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for FanHouse Fantasy Football today. (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020)