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30-04-10, 13:09
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What's this occupation say please?
Thomas Smithson aged 39
Plaster ??? Labourer 1891 census http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec/?...=&pid=19452715
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30-04-10, 13:14
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I googled 'gypsum quaries Balderton' and there seems to have been a lot of it about! lol Sounds like a potentially horrible place to work
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30-04-10, 13:18
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Ooh I'll have a look at that. Thanks Merry
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30-04-10, 16:33
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I think Nelson Mandela was quarrying for something similar on Robben Island but I might have misremembered.
I'm sure that lime dust does wonders for the lungs.
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