Sounds like you've guessed rightly. Audrey ----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Beck" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 6:03 PM Subject: [OEL] Occupation Translation > Hey all, > > I recently acquired an old birth certificate of a relative, dating back to > 1887. I was unsure what the father's occupation said, so I asked Judith to > try and tell me what is says - which she very kindly did (a nail caster). > > What I am not sure of however is what a nail caster in 1887 actually did? > Could it be the making of nails? > > I have uploaded the image to > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/message/an/topics.researchresources.translators/171 > if you care to see it for youselves. > > Any help appreciated, > > Thanks, > > Simon > > _________________________________________________________________ > Windows LiveT Messenger has arrived. Click here to download it for free! > http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch80/?locale=en-gb > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.13.4/477 - Release Date: 16/10/2006
The problem is that nails tended to be cut rather than cast, the problem with cast iron being that it is totally unsuited to making nails. We really need to look for either an alternative meaning for nail, or and alternative meaning for cast. This is why I was asking for context. A nail can be a measure of cloth and a nail is also the name for the wire in a cotton comb. John At 00:54 20/10/2006, you wrote: >Sounds like you've guessed rightly. > >Audrey > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Simon Beck" <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 6:03 PM >Subject: [OEL] Occupation Translation > > > > Hey all, > > > > I recently acquired an old birth certificate of a relative, dating back to > > 1887. I was unsure what the father's occupation said, so I asked Judith to > > try and tell me what is says - which she very kindly did (a nail caster). > > > > What I am not sure of however is what a nail caster in 1887 actually did? > > Could it be the making of nails? > > > > I have uploaded the image to > > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/message/an/topics.researchresources.translators/171 > > if you care to see it for youselves.
Birmingham directory 1830 has "Samuel Ashton, iron founder and cast nail manufacturer". Possibly some heavier nails were cast? Or could this be nails used on early carding machines? Adrian Verry
Carding machine, that was the word I was looking for :-) I wondered if perhaps rivets might have been called nails, they would happily be cast. John At 01:42 20/10/2006, you wrote: >Birmingham directory 1830 has "Samuel Ashton, iron founder and cast nail >manufacturer". Possibly some heavier nails were cast? Or could this be >nails used on early carding machines? > >Adrian Verry >
William Radcliffe, a contemporary and friend of Richard Arkwright (he who invented the water frame for spinning cotton mechanically), invented the first water powered carding machine. I'm not sure which mill now houses the example of this. It may be Cromford, Derbyshire. William Radcliffe, with partners, owned a spinning mill in Mellor, Arkwright owned a lot of land in Mellor and his descendants bought the largest mill, Mellor Mill, from the stepbrother of Samuel Oldknow who pioneered the spinning of muslin thread. William Radcliffe was a friend of Oldknow and wrote a book called "The Origins of Power Loom Weaving". He was thrice mayor of Stockport, owning another mill there. His family were attacked in their home by Luddites who threw his wife down the stairs, resulting in her death. William Radcliffe, on the other hand, escaped and died much later, apparently penniless, as the members of the church he attended had a whip round for his funeral. There is a portrait of William in the Manchester Museum. Audrey ----- Original Message ----- From: "maggie and adrian" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 1:42 AM Subject: Re: [OEL] Occupation Translation > Birmingham directory 1830 has "Samuel Ashton, iron founder and cast nail > manufacturer". Possibly some heavier nails were cast? Or could this be > nails used on early carding machines? > > Adrian Verry > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.13.4/477 - Release Date: 16/10/2006 > >