Jimmy "Napoleon" McMenemy Found......

delmarco · Post by **delmarco** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 10:02 pm

$\:D/$ $\:D/$ $\:D/$ $\:D/$ $\:D/$ $\:D/$ $\:D/$ $\:D/$ $\:D/$ $\:D/$ $\:D/$ $\:D/$ $\:D/$ Thanks to a lovely gal, from another site (hangs head in shame

$ ) I have the info I had been searching for. I then went and found his parents marriage cert, which was not James and Ann Smith as originally thought, but John McMenamin and Hannah Rigan.
Jimmy Married Rose Mcclusky in 1905, his occ is listed as prof football player, her is french polisher, does anyone know what this is???

Kind Regards
Karen

Skene Dhu · Post by **Skene Dhu** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 10:58 pm

Hi Karen,

Glad you finally got to the bottom of it, I had a sneaky feeling you were not positive about the parents being James & Ann Smith, thats why I gave you the info on John & Hannah living at 103 King St., Rutherglen, the children of that family fitted in perfectly.

A French Polisher puts the stain on furniture & polishes it up.

Happy hunting
John

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 11:06 pm

Hi Karen
Really pleased to hear you finally caught him!

Here's a bit more about French Polishing:

French Polisher
A French Polisher is a person who applies a type of wood finish consisting of varying parts of shellac and alcohol (solvent). It is wiped on by hand with the grain of the wood with a special lint-free cloth pad, (called a 'rubber' also lubricated with linseed oil) and rubbed until dry, usually in less than a minute. Many additional coats were added until the desired effect was achieved. The final very high gloss is attained by 'spiriting off' with neat alcohol. It requires a lot of skill and practice to get the best (glossiest) finish. Being very labour intensive, this type of work is only done on more expensive furniture, as a rule.

http://www.woodgate.org/FAQs/socgbrit.html#FAQ5

Best wishes
Lesley

delmarco · Post by **delmarco** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 2:10 am

Hullo John & Lesley

John, you are so right on, Im sure the other McM's are our rellies too, but thanks to you, the gal I was chatting with found my man, Ive been burnin up the SP credits this afternoon finding the rest of that branch!!

Thank you for the "polisher" info, it seems like an interesting career, funny a few of the more modern McM's were into woodcrafting, must be
in the genes!!

Have a groovy evening!
Karen