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Member Since: March 2004 Posts: 1,201 Send Message	Mad Alice	Report	21 Nov 2004 10:03
Member Since: March 2004 Posts: 1,201 Send Message	Can anyone tell me what a whitesmith would do? Alice
Member Since: June 2004 Posts: 4,011 Send Message	TonyOz	Report	21 Nov 2004 10:06
	Hi Alice. A Google search shows: Whitesmith. One who works in tinned or galvanized iron, or white iron; a tinsmith Tony
	Researching: Hull,Williamson,Hales,Sadd,Langton,Bateman -"Essex"...Copley,"Sussex" - "Yorkshire" Richardson -"Yorkshire"...Barnes - "Wiltshire" ...Coglan - "Lancashire"... McCarthy & Walsh ( Ireland )"Limerick & Kilkenny"
Member Since: April 2003 Posts: 6,691 Send Message	susie manterfield(high wycombe)	Report	21 Nov 2004 10:07
Member Since: April 2003 Posts: 6,691 Send Message	hi alice all of my mums family were whitesmiths. they worked with tin. also known as tinsmiths. susie
Member Since: March 2004 Posts: 1,201 Send Message	Mad Alice	Report	21 Nov 2004 10:08
Member Since: March 2004 Posts: 1,201 Send Message	Thank you both. another census does refer to him working with tin! alice