hi list, i would just like to thank jennifer cairns and Bill for their repsonses to my query, i have since found a birth cert of william's sister that says that her father was indeed a millwright, so it confirms that the death cert i have for william jnr is the right one, next step is to find a newspaper article on the inquest which was held on the 30th July 1878 John ________________________________ From: john tyner <johntyner2001@yahoo.com> To: glamorgan@rootsweb.com Sent: Wed, 16 March, 2011 23:15:02 Subject: [GLA] millwright occupation vs hammerman hi list, i have today received a death certificate of a possible ancestor of mine, William Williams died from drowning in the river tawe in 1878, it gives his father as william williams a millwright. are millwright and hammerman the same occupation? if so then this is my ancestor as my william williams was a son of william williams a hammerman in various census records. the family lived at nantagloch(nantygloch) and was a fitter in 1871, by 1881 they had moved to Tirdeinaw talybont and william was a hammerman in the copper works. from John in cold Ireland!       -- To send to the list send to glamorgan@rootsweb.com GLAMORGAN Family History Mailing List archives etc. are at http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/WLS/GLAMORGAN.html - A large amount of information, and a wide variety of useful links, may be found at http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/ - The South/West Wales Lookup Exchange and Gareth's Help Pages http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~walesle/wal/AW.html and http://home.clara.net/tirbach/hicks.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GLAMORGAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message