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  • What was a white smith?

    Got a question for you, the census reference is HO1071232 15 to double check. What did a white smith do, I know what a black smith did and are they related?

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    A whitesmith is a person who works with "white" or light-colored metals such as tin and pewter.
    Wendy



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    • #3
      Yes related. Both operated smithies, ie heated and shaped metal but whitesmiths worked with white metal which I think would be tin, silver etc (though come to think of it tinsmiths and silversmiths also existed!)
      Judith passed away in October 2018

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      • #4
        From our very own Wiki

        Whitesmith Person who works with white or light coloured metals such as tin. Can also refer to a person who finishes other metal objects.

        Blacksmith Worked (still does) iron with forge and hammer


        so yes they are related trades
        Barbara

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        • #5
          So assuming William Key, (Charlotte's father) is an ancestor of mine, where would they have come from. I associate tin mining with Cornwall and I do have relatives that have gone from Hull to Cornwall, so why not the other way round. I will be getting hold of the Wilson/Key marriage certificate to make sure I am not going off at a tangent very soon.

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          • #6
            I think it was easy to move from being a blacksmith to a whitesmith. I have a couple of blacksmith's in my tree who became whitesmith's later in life.

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            • #7
              Whitesmiths didn't "come from" anywhere in particular - every area needed a whitesmith and would have had one in their own community, just as every area had a blacksmith.

              OC

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