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A relative of mine is noted as a job the Title Oilcart man circa 1901 can anybody expand on this ?
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I believe it was a person who went around the streets with his cart selling
paraffin to households. They used paraffin a lot in the old days as not everyone
had electric lighting. I remember when I lived in Albert Street that our lights
were gas.
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