Guest mich Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 Help please. Can anyone tell me what a "Finturer" was or did? According to the 1911 Census, my great, great uncle George Musgarve of Abbeydale Road, Sheffield was a finturer. I have no idea, and nor has google. Before he was a finturer he was described as a "stationary engine tenter" and before that a corn miller so I presume finturing involved machinery of some sort. Thanks Mich :wub: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 It looks like you have an answer, thanks to John_H @ www.sheffieldrecordsonline.org.uk/ 'Musgrave, George H., Fruiterer, sheffieldindexers.com/TradeDirectories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 751Abbeydale Road, the pizza shop. <iframe width="562" height="314" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&q=norfolk+heritage+park&ie=UTF8&hq=norfolk+heritage+park&t=m&layer=c&cbll=53.353701,-1.485978&panoid=Wt84YRTxFet7bYQ67sUfwA&cbp=13,115.61,,1,0.95&ll=53.349078,-1.485987&spn=0.016088,0.048237&z=14&source=embed&output=svembed"></iframe><br /><small><a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&q=norfolk+heritage+park&ie=UTF8&hq=norfolk+heritage+park&t=m&layer=c&cbll=53.353701,-1.485978&panoid=Wt84YRTxFet7bYQ67sUfwA&cbp=13,115.61,,1,0.95&ll=53.349078,-1.485987&spn=0.016088,0.048237&z=14&source=embed" style="color:#0000FF;text-align:left">View Larger Map</a></small> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mich Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 Thanks. The stupid thing is that I probably transcribed the entry on Sheffield records online without realising who it was. I remember doing the Ws in the 1911 Trades, took forever. I'm not sure if I did the Ms. I was obviously wise to stick with transcribing from printed sources rather than the census images. I was led up the garden path by the printed summary I got when I searched for him in the census on Ancestry - having seen the printed occupation as "finturer", when I looked at the original image, which was not best legible, I took the "official transcription" as gospel. Those who transcribed the early census information for the online website have my utmost respect! Mich Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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