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    What is a 'bronzer'?

    What is a 'bronzer'? Thanks very much for these replies. It sounds as though she may have been working in a factory making ornamental trinkets of some sort then, if not actually in the jewellery trade. The reason I wondered about the jewellery trade was because her younger sister is listed...
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    What is a 'bronzer'?

    If I have deciphered the writing correctly, my great-grandmother's occupation is listed on the 1881 census as 'bronzer'. She was living in Essington Street, Ladywood (just off Broad Street). Is this something in the jewellery trade - might she have been working in the Jewellery Quarter - or is...
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