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What is this occupation?
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Justin | Report | 5 Jul 2004 08:08 |
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Hi, I found an ancestor on the 1871 census who was a "Tunman" - does anyone know what this is? I cannot see it on the usual websites I check for old occupations (e.g. GenDocs). I wonder if it is a job in a brewery, as many of the neighbours worked as brewer's labourers (Wyke Regis in Dorset). Many thanks, Justin |
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Abigail | Report | 5 Jul 2004 08:28 |
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Yes, possibly, because I know there is a piece of equipment called a mash tun used during the brewing process. Abigail |
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badger | Report | 5 Jul 2004 08:31 |
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You are more than rightly right, if memory serves correctly a tun is a smallish cask ,used to contain beer ,or ale ,so it could even be a sort of coopers mate as it were .Fred. |
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Justin | Report | 5 Jul 2004 09:11 |
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Wendy, Fred, Thanks for your replies. Come to think of it, I once worked in an office opposite a pub called "The Three Tuns" in Sheffield. The pub sign was a picture of three beer barrels! Justin |
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valinkent | Report | 7 Jul 2004 14:29 |
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On my grandparents marriage certificate grandfather is down as a TOGGER .it turns out to be a farm labourer.Words they used in them days, this was early 1900. Val |
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