<,Anyone any ideas what a cutter cut ? I'm presuming something to do with animals as his father was a groom.>> Hi Gareth I have changed the subject of this thread- Try entering the term "old occupations " into a search engine - loads of info online. Cutter - from my work on the census records people cutting animals in the rural areas was called a castrator - (Ouch! ) Cutters in Birmingham could be cutting buttons, metals , leather, etc etc. So you probably need to look at the area your chap was working in -and find him on a census record to see what his occupation is listed as there.- His children's baptism/birth records may also include the father's occuaption You may also need to conside that the occupation was a CUTLER-(view the original to be certain) just throwing a few spanners at you <grin> Cheers Wendy Boland Warwick List Admin

And in the garment producing trade, possibly at a later date when "off the peg" became more common, a "cutter" cut out the fabric. My father had a small factory making woollen non fully fashioned cardigans. Job was our cutter. He used enormous scissors to cut out five pieces at a time. Then he would separate out the variouse body pieces from his stacks, e.g. 2 sleeves, 1 back, 2 fronts, 1 finsihing rib and, sometimes, 2 pockets, tie them all up in a bundle with a piece of offcut and pass then to the sewing-up girls. His cutting table was wooden and polished to a fine sheen from long use! My mum was a dab hand at getting needles out of the girls fingers. They were on piece work and sometimes included bits of their own bodies in the garment in the rush to finish. Anne Paling SHEFFIELD, U.K. >From: "Wendy Boland" <wendy.boland@bigpond.com> >To: "Gareth" <everitt@xs4all.nl>, <mgeneas@yahoo.ca> >CC: WARWICK@rootsweb.com >Subject: [WAR] Cutter >Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:53:35 +1000 > > > ><,Anyone any ideas what a cutter cut ? I'm presuming something to do with >animals as his father was a groom.>> > >Hi Gareth > >I have changed the subject of this thread- > >Try entering the term "old occupations " into a search engine - loads of >info online. > >Cutter - from my work on the census records people cutting animals in the >rural areas was called a castrator - >(Ouch! ) > >Cutters in Birmingham could be cutting buttons, metals , leather, etc etc. >So you probably need to look at the >area your chap was working in -and find him on a census record to see what >his occupation is listed as there.- >His children's baptism/birth records may also include the father's >occuaption > >You may also need to conside that the occupation was a CUTLER-(view the >original to be certain) > just throwing a few spanners at you <grin> > >Cheers >Wendy Boland >Warwick List Admin > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >WARWICK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >in the subject and the body of the message