logging (General)

by maggiemc , Friday, May 08, 2015, 19:12 (3481 days ago)

Have come across what I think is the word "chainwoman" as an occupation on an 1841 census. There are two of them on the same sheet and they are in the company of a sawyer and 2 woodsmen. Could this have been maybe something connected with moving cut timber out of the forest? Or any other ideas?