Thanks a bunch. Do you have a definition? I only get a part answer when I google it. I also keep getting passed to eithher a load of adverts or pages that don't seem to load! Anyway, thanks agaion, I have no doubts you are right.
At sixteen he was back in his native village working in a quarry; some two years later (1862), he became a "surfaceman" (a person who maintains the railway tracks and track bed)