Genealogy Query? Anyone know what a bil mill press man would have done?

[HAZ]

I think I can assume its summat to do with woodwork...but i just keep getting sights were men from arkansas post pictures of chrome bolts!!!!!!

Its on a death cert for my hubbys great grandad died 1935.
Its deff spelt correct as it on 2 different certs..one marriage one death.It is mentioned on a couple of strange woodworking sites and there it is spelt BIL mill....doesn't tell you what it actually IS though.....

[tucksie]

I think it may be billet press man, he worked in a steel or iron works and fed hot billets through the mill presses to reshape or resize them. A billet is a big block of metal.

[D B]

have you spelled that correctly?

[ItsJustMe]

I'm answering this from the UK, I found this site for you but it doesn't give any idea as to what your gr/grandad did for a living, sorry, but it is an excellent site and a very useful one too.
http://rmhh.co.uk/occup/b.html
Hope this helps anyway.

[Jim]

A billyman was a cotton spinner. I have a book called 'A Dictionary of Old Trades, Titles and Occupations'. by Colin Waters. It's not got bil mill press man in it, but it's a fair guess. Try finding out what the main industries in the town were at the time.