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

Question: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.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: 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.

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.

have you spelled that correctly?

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.

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.

I think it is a machinist, a billet is a block of metal and a milling machine it what makes billets onto tools, guns, bolts and other metal parts. A pressman is what you call the operator of a milling machine or any metal forming machine including metal stamping machines. Operators of printing machines are also called pressmen.

I see on Google there was also a ship named bil mill and a park with that name but I cant figure how those would be an occupation.