Workers Came Steerage
Travelling steerage on the First Four Ships were 209 adult men and unmarried women who came to Canterbury as tradesmen or workers. Shepherds, agricultural workers and labourers formed the largest group of 111 and there were 30 domestic servants. The others were: 14 carpenters, two plumbers and glaziers, six blacksmiths, four bricklayers, four masons, three brick and tilemakers, one wheelwright, one gunsmith, three printers, two lightermen, four millers, two bakers, a butcher, eight gardeners, 12 stockmen and dairymen and an agricultural machine maker.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31088, 17 June 1966, Page 27 (Supplement)
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86Workers Came Steerage Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31088, 17 June 1966, Page 27 (Supplement)
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