Miscellaneous trades and craftsmen or women
This heading raises the question as to whar was the difference between a trade, a craft or an occupation. In general for those ‘means of earning a living’ that we have little information about will be recorded here. If we have more details about an occupation a link will be provided, eg thatchers, builders and decorators or carpentry and ‘smithing. Farm work will be found under farming people and practises.
See also shopkeepers and traders
or leather workers such as cobblers or harness makers.
As will be seen it was not uncommon for an individual to be recorded as having several trades/skills or occupations.
See also Miscellaneous opportunities and job advertisements.
The 1939 survey gives us interesting information about the various types of work that local people were engaged in. At the time the survey was made only 5 women were listed as being in paid employment, the rest did ‘unpaid domestic duties’. The variety of work men or women were employed in can be read here.
In previous generations most men in the area of the ‘Uplands would have been working on the land or their livelihoods would have been linked to the land but by the end of the 19th century some local men were working in the industries that had been founded along the river Gipping e.g. gun-cotton, malt kilns, paper works, iron foundry, manure or fertiliser factories. or see less manual occupations eg in 1927 Arthur Forsdyke was an Insurance agent
T. Lambert was living on the Green in the late 19th century . He held a steam thresher certificate. Although according to the Illustrated London News of May 5th 1860 he was declared bankrupt.
In 1927 (Kellys) P.Jacobs was a watch repairer living on Mill Street.
1916 (Kellys):- Henry Steggall, miller
1896 (Kellys) :- Mrs Dorothy Steggle, Miller (wind & steam) & corn merchant.
1885 (PO Directory): Adams & Son, Millwrights, Creeting Rd.
John Thomas Bauley Ayliffe Miller Thorney Green
1864 (Harrods & Co Postal & Commercial Directory)
George Bauley- Miller & beer retailer
Bear & Peak Millwrights & engineers
John R.Hammond Miller
Walter Peck, millwright
(Whites) 1855: Henry Wicks Corn miller
Ipswich Journal- 6th June 1807: Died on Friday Se’night Wm.M.Harwood millwright of Stowupland.
1844 (Whites) Thomas Bauley, Miller & beer retialer
Fuller Felgate, corn miller
Miss Cross – water mill
Thomas Wood, niller
Coopers (see also carpenters and ‘smiths)
1767, Charles Beard
1864, Thomas Green, Wheelwright & cooper
Boot or Shoe makers (Cobblers and leather workers)
Jan 1821: – Mr James Mayes , shoemaker of Stowupland died after a short illness.
1891 – In 1891-2:Denis Beecroft was a shoemaker in Saxon (sic) Street.
kellys 1904: John Amos shoe maker.
1916 (Kellys): Dennis Frederick Wilden, Boot Maker & Post Office
1927 (Kellys) Rt Calthorpe Boot repairer (possibly living nr Green Farm).
1927 (Kellys) Reeve Wilden a Boot maker and runs the Post Office
James Dent was born in 1870, he was a builder, butcher, poultryman and sweep (living in Oak Cottage)
Some known occupations from the 17th century.
Much of this knowledge comes from the inventory and wills that were researched by Ena Carter
Thos Cook
An inventory from 1619 tells us he was a carpenter in Stowupland. Valued at £18 2s and 6d was his hall, nether-chamber, dairy and chamber over hall.( This inventory was found in Norwich).
See carpenters and related trades for other local craftsmen.
