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Member Since: January 2003 Posts: 11,594 Send Message	~~~Secret Red ^^ Squirrel~~~ 007 1/2	Report	12 Jul 2009 09:16
	wow this is an old thread Lesley, but Bob is still on the boards :)
Member Since: March 2006 Posts: 8 Send Message	Lesley	Report	12 Jul 2009 09:14
Member Since: March 2006 Posts: 8 Send Message	Hi Bob, Yes that is the job, but trying to find his work place is very difficult. Lesley
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 24,533 Send Message	Bobtanian	Report	25 Mar 2006 18:41
	isnt that the person that would have assembled all the lead type, in frames ready for printing?or at least the machine minder that looked after the type making machine? Bob
	Researching: me and my darling wife at our wedding in 1960
Member Since: March 2006 Posts: 8 Send Message	Lesley	Report	25 Mar 2006 14:59
Member Since: March 2006 Posts: 8 Send Message	Does anyone know the name of any newspapers in or near the Halstead Essex area in 1860, the would have employed a PRINT COMPOSITOR, my ancestor George Lewis Wiffin was employed as one but we can't find out where, he maintained the same occupation in Chlemsford and latterly West Ham.