Thomas Thompson b.1853

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Member Since: December 2004 Posts: 24 447 Send Message	Dea	Report	1 May 2015 10:06
	I'm sorry Jacqueline but I disagree on one point. A shipwright is not the same as a 'Carpenter' BUT is extremely similar to a 'Ship's Carpenter' It was more usual for a ship's carpenter to sail on board the ship and carry out his skills there along with other jobs as part of the crew whereas a Shipwright was usually based on land and transferred those skills to not only repairing ships when they came in for repair but also building new ones. Many ships carpenters left the sea when they married and had families and became shipwrights. Dea x
Member Since: April 2003 Posts: 47 Send Message	David	Report	1 May 2015 13:03
Member Since: April 2003 Posts: 47 Send Message	However both trades work in wood and we are talking about 1860s and it wasn't his father who wrote on a certificate it was Thomas so he wouldn't necessarily understand the difference between the trades, so to him shipwright with someone who works with wood on ships ie ships carpenters. people are recorded as being engineers on the census forms but in actual fact they are mechanics or operators of machines.