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Topic: Decipher this occupation please (Read 265 times)
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SS from The Rhondda
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Could it be Mechanic ?
I know it is 1841 census, but perhaps he was employed at a mill repairing machines ?
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BarryBear
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"You got some disgusting 'abits you really 'ave!"
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This might sound really obvious but I tend to try and find other letters on the same page and compare them. 
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 Lawson in Durham and Croydon, Corbett in Surrey, Watts in Surrey and Croydon, King in Herts, Knight in South East London, Papworth in East London, Brewer in Essex, Eley/Ely in Essex, NewburyNewberry in Herts Fillery in Surrey Waugh in Durham |
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kentishlady
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could it be cloth weaver?
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kentishlady
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apologies - was looking at Charles Kay - oops
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Kazza
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This might sound really obvious but I tend to try and find other letters on the same page and compare them.
With ones as unclear as this that is sometimes the only way to go. I would not have got mechanic though, well done SS.
kentishlady,
Welcome to RootsChat.  Hope you enjoy the forum, and don't forget to post your name interests in the appropriate counties, if you want to find other RootsChatters researching the same ones.
Kazza.
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 Surname interests: Clementsten, Hobson, Hole, Marden, O'Clements, Pitten, Sharland, Vickery (Vicary), Williams. Area Interests: Cardiff, Bampton, Bideford, Crediton, Wollaston, Somerset, Tidenham, Norway, Australia to Bristol. |
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krisesjoint
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to me it looks like
MECHANIC
as well Fitty
Kris
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KathyM
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Yes - it's def. mechanic - although I did wonder what you had to do to be a "mushroom" !
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~~~~~~~~ Census transcriptions Crown Copyright, www.NationalArchives.gov.ukArdill, Bourke/Burke, Bellwood, Bridge, Cain, Church, Cragg, Dennell, Dunning, Gough, Haslam, Holmes, Jessop, Kidson/Kitson, Knowles, Markwick, Martin, Munden, Nickerson, Robinson, Seddon, Whittle, Varley & Walpole. Areas: Yorkshire, Lancashire, Norfolk, Marylebone & Tipperary |
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SS from The Rhondda
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I ended up with Mechanic, but I originally thought it could have been Musician. There would have been a redundant c at the end then, though.
I thought the enumerator had put the 'h' mark thought the middle of the word - it does look like a mark added later.
I am in the middle of transcribing an 1891 census piece... Your 1841 Mechanic is much more easily readable than half of the words I am contending with!
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for John Smith
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