Below are some resources I recommend if any of your ancestors in your family tree were sawyers.

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Description: Someone who worked with timber and cut them into uniform lengths. These were usually boards or planks, used for building, propping up walls and roofs. The sawdust was used for animal bedding and the off-cuts used as firewood.

Websites:

Description of a sawyer in Victorian Lambeth, London

Reading materials:

The Book of English Trades, and Library of Useful Arts

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