Re: Occupation puzzle

Paulette Smith wrote:

One of my ancestors was a "turf cutter" in the cemetery in his old age but a stone cutter when young. I assume this mean he carefully dug up the turf and stacked it so it could be replaced over the grave site after the burial.


turf cut in a peat bog has been used for fuel since before written records began

the wet turf is cut and stacked to wind dry before being carted away
what location ?
a map wil give aclue

http://www.ipcc.ie/cbwinning.html

Traditional turf-cutting methods have not changed since ancient times. The bog was always drained before cutting began. A main drain was opened across the bog with sub-drains cross-connecting with the main drain. A scraitheog or scraw cutter was used to cut away the top scraw or 50cm. The scraitheog was made from pliable wood such as ash, and with a blade made from scrap metal.

.. . . . .
The Lullymore turf-cutter Christie Daly, was reputed to be the fastest slanesman of all time cutting 100 sods a minute!

in world war 2 coal shortages meant more turf cutting than ever

active around 1957....in Ireland. Bulleid's Experimental Turf Burner

http://abpr.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi?//april98/04-13-98/cc1b.jpg
soo gone

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=turf+locomotive&btnG=Google+Search

enjoy

Hugh W


"Richard van Schaik" <f.m.a.vanschaikREMOVE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:45f45c11$0$3900$dbd4f001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Charani wrote:


On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 08:33:00 -0600, Les wrote:


I think the second word looks like Merchant , but I am unable to
decipher what the first word is.

On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 16:01:59 +0100, Lesley Robertson wrote:


The first word looks like "turf", he could have been growing and
selling the stuff....

On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 16:19:29 +0100, Richard van Schaik wrote:

I would read turfmerchant also and thought of the dutch word turf ....... had to look in my dictionary ;-)

My thanks to you all. Looking at it again, I think you're right with
Turf Merchant. It's all been run together so it reads as Richard's
written it.

To explain what I meant with the dutch version ..... the dutch word turf means peat (was on my mind and also found this in my dictionary). It seems to me a hard job to grow that in a lifetime. Upon checking the english version has a somewhat different meaning with a bit of the same background.

Richard

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