Tallow chandler, fellmonger, and whitesmith
While researching place names and photographs from turn of the (20th) century Sheffield, I found a list of trades and professions and the people practicing them in Sheffield around 1822 (well before Walter's time, but possibly still relevant in 1905). Some of them required a dictionary to find out what they were; some were more obvious. Here are my favorites:
- metal button manufacturer
- bone scale cutter (can't find a definition of this, but every Goggle listing mentions Sheffield, so I assume it had something to do with the cutlery trade)
- beadle and gaol master
- whitesmith
- soap boiler
- tea pot handle maker (guess someone else made the actual pots and put them together)
- tallow chandler
- dealer in bone and horn dust
- fellmonger
- smith and farrier
- fancy case maker
- penknife cutter and grinder
There were no Wildgooses listed for any of these trades/professions; I just found them interesting.
I also ran across a few surnames that will definitely make it into the book:
- Abbershaw
- Dewsnap
- Staniforth
- Ibbotson
- Sneesby
- Heppenstall
- Cockerton
Very literary names. Obviously, "Wildgoose" wasn't so out-of-the-ordinary.
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