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Surgical Instrument Maker

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Roberta

Roberta Report 4 Feb 2010 21:48

Hi Joan , The family name was Green , in1871 they were in manchester, from 1881 onwards they lived in various areas of london.

Roberta

Roberta Report 4 Feb 2010 21:48

Hi Joan , The family name was Green , in1871 they were in manchester, from 1881 onwards they lived in various areas of london.

Joan

Joan Report 2 Feb 2010 21:58

Hi Roberta
I have Surgical Instrument Makers too !
A whole family of them on many census
What were your family called ?
Joan

Helen in Bucks

Helen in Bucks Report 29 Jan 2010 19:09

my husband's grandfather and greatgrandfather and some of their siblings were also surgical instrument makers, I don't have a lot of other info, but someone once suggested that the Cutlers livery company may have more info

bizarrely when he died in 1935 my husband's grandfather had had a change of career and was a painter and decorator, so presumably automation had meant a lot of the older craftspeople no longer had work

it would be a real coincidence if we were talking about the same family, but my lot were all Millers (originally Muellers and from Germany)

TeresaW

TeresaW Report 29 Jan 2010 18:58

much the same as any tool maker I should imagine, though perhaps a little more intricate? He would be the one probably crafting steel to make the scalpels, tweezers, and other instruments used in operations.

Researching:
Lovell, Morse, Baker, Duval, Mortlock, Gibbs and Bristow.

Roberta

Roberta Report 29 Jan 2010 18:53

My great grand father was shown on all his census returns to be a surgical instrument maker. Does anybody have any information on what this work would have entailed ?