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Colin Y
RootsChat Senior
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Uncle Fred - England XI 1908 - POW Berlin 1914-19
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Hi Folks
In the 1881 census one of my CHILD family heads is described as a Mercant while his son, then aged 22 is decribed as a "Foreign Clerk Correspondent (Desk)" They Lived in Addison Road, Holland Park a very smart neighbourhood.
Does anyone have any idea what Foreign Clerk Correspondent (Desk) means?
Then the son wed in 1881 and moved to Sidcup/Foots Cray before relocating the family to the new Branksome Development at Poole with 3 staff at some time pre 1901.
By 1901 the son is listed as a 'Retired Merchant" at 43, so it must have been lucrative. He has a Flat in Town at Bedford Mansions, Bloomsbury, as well as the Branksome place.
Any thoughts as to how we might find out who his employers were would be appreciated too!
Colin
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YARWOOD in Warks/Ches/Staffs/Salop/Worcs but also in London - Northants, Lincs and adj counties.
PENTLAND in Warks/Worcs/Staffs, IRL: Arm & Down. NZ post 1884 and SCO pre 1800. ORKNEY earlier
COLLERIN aka COLLINS GALLAGHER and COX [RC] Highgate, Small Heath, Birmingham 1840-, IRL (?) earlier
FRYER/FRIAR Ulster SCO
BROOKES in WARKS/WORCS Moseley, RA
WRIGHT Northants
JENNER/LASCELLES ENG AUS
CHILD almost anywhere
MURLY/MURLEY Som & Dors NZ Brazil
READER & ROGERS Derby & Bucks, RODGERS Derby
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Wendi
RootsChat Aristocrat
Posts: 2927
Peeking into the past
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Hi Colin
I'm attaching the image, because, dispite the transcription you have used I don't think it says "Clerk" which leads me more towards the newspaper idea
Wendi 
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"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it! No matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and with your own common sense" ~ Buddha SCOTT ~ Monmouthshire & Glamorgan BUCKLEY ~ Cork & Manchester FRANKLIN ~ Clerkenwell, London BRADY ~ Kildare & Manchester DERICK ~ France FRIEND ~ Kent & Portsmouth TYLDESLEY ~ Lancashire http://www.themanchesters.org________________________________________ Census information posted here is Crown Copyright, from www.nati |
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Colin Y
RootsChat Senior
Posts: 293
Uncle Fred - England XI 1908 - POW Berlin 1914-19
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Thank you Casa
Though that refers to the 1881 I assume it was used thereafter. Correspondent never mind 'foreign correspondent's do not appear there specifically but I see what you mean.
So, now I have to find out which London papers would have had a foreign correspondent at that time and hopefully track him down that way.
Since there were a number of CHILDs in India I suppose its a good guess he was there in 1891.
His father was a "merchant" and your essex.ac.uk source details Merchants as being referred to by the good that they dealt with, unless they were foreign merchants in whch case they appear as Merchant. So that explains that Henry William Grace CHILD (HWRChilds father) who appear on the 1881 as a retired merchant living in Holland Park, was an importer/exporter. It would be nice to know more about him and his business.
Perhaps my July planned visit to the BL to the India Office section will turn up more but any other ideas you guys? Please!
Thanks for the guidance.
Colin
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YARWOOD in Warks/Ches/Staffs/Salop/Worcs but also in London - Northants, Lincs and adj counties.
PENTLAND in Warks/Worcs/Staffs, IRL: Arm & Down. NZ post 1884 and SCO pre 1800. ORKNEY earlier
COLLERIN aka COLLINS GALLAGHER and COX [RC] Highgate, Small Heath, Birmingham 1840-, IRL (?) earlier
FRYER/FRIAR Ulster SCO
BROOKES in WARKS/WORCS Moseley, RA
WRIGHT Northants
JENNER/LASCELLES ENG AUS
CHILD almost anywhere
MURLY/MURLEY Som & Dors NZ Brazil
READER & ROGERS Derby & Bucks, RODGERS Derby
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Wendi
RootsChat Aristocrat
Posts: 2927
Peeking into the past
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Hi casalguidi I can see the Clerk now, when I posted it I was reading the same word as desk - which is I suppose how the transcription was made using both words - funny how the eye can play tricks on one 
Good luck Colin,
Wendi
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"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it! No matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and with your own common sense" ~ Buddha SCOTT ~ Monmouthshire & Glamorgan BUCKLEY ~ Cork & Manchester FRANKLIN ~ Clerkenwell, London BRADY ~ Kildare & Manchester DERICK ~ France FRIEND ~ Kent & Portsmouth TYLDESLEY ~ Lancashire http://www.themanchesters.org________________________________________ Census information posted here is Crown Copyright, from www.nati |
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