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Topic: Opinion on Profession in Hinckley C1841 (Read 145 times)
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*sparkle*
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.natio
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I am struggling to read the profession of Prudence Sperry b. 1779, Tamworth, Staffs in the 1841 census where she is living with her Daughters family; Eliza Hall/Halt in Hinckley.
In the 1851 Census she is listed as a former Innkeepers wife and is still living with the Hall/Halt family.
I've attached the image but it is very poor.
Any ideas are welcomed as I'm trying to find out more about her husband Jacob.
Tracey
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Rammell - Worcestershire
Sperry, King, Wolloff, Heap - Leicestershire
Ireland, Beck, Neisham, Hyslop, Harley - Dumfriesshire/ Kirkcudbrightshire
Dickson, Manderson, Hogg, Bowie - Roxburghshire/ Selkirkshire/ Berwickshire
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CaroleW
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Seamstress is a possibility
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JAP
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Looks like Sempstress (Seamstress) to me - with a long 's' as the penultimate letter.
JAP
PS: Sorry CaroleW - your reply came through as I was typing mine; however I thought it might be worth posting mine anyway as it points out the long 's'. Also, Sempstress was an alternative for Seamstress.
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Scotland - HALL, HARLEY, LOCHTY/LOCHTIE/LOUGHTIE/LOUGHTY (very rare), MCLAUSE/MCLAWS/MCILHOSE/HOSE (quite rare and many very variable spellings - close to 100 to date), PHILP/PHILIP, VASSIE; Ireland - BOURKE/BURKE, DONOHUE (many spellings), DOOLEY, KINSELLA, MAXWELL, OSBORNE, RAFFERTY, STA(U)NTON, SULLIVAN; England - BAYES, BROWNELL, DALTON, FREEMAN, HACKING, PIERCY, SIDDLE, SWIFT, SULLIVAN, TINK(L)ER, TRIPPIT. Any spellings and many other names!
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*sparkle*
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It does look a bit like sempstrefs perhaps and it is likely that she was a seamstress if she was a widow and living with a family whose head is an Ag. Labourer.
Suppose I was looking for something more exciting 
Thanks both!
Tx
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Rammell - Worcestershire
Sperry, King, Wolloff, Heap - Leicestershire
Ireland, Beck, Neisham, Hyslop, Harley - Dumfriesshire/ Kirkcudbrightshire
Dickson, Manderson, Hogg, Bowie - Roxburghshire/ Selkirkshire/ Berwickshire
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JAP
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Hi *sparkle*,
Sorry to disappoint you! But, to me, there's no doubt at all (not 'a bit like' or 'perhaps' ) that it says Sempstress (with the first 's' of the double 'ss' being written as the old-fashioned long 's').
JAP
PS:Incidentally, the long 's' is definitely an 's' and not an 'f' - an 'f' really shouldn't be used to represent it. In printing of the time, the printed long 's' was certainly like a printed 'f' but it differed in one significant respect; a printed 'f' had the bar going all the way through whereas, in the printed long 's', the bar was only to the left of the downstroke.
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Scotland - HALL, HARLEY, LOCHTY/LOCHTIE/LOUGHTIE/LOUGHTY (very rare), MCLAUSE/MCLAWS/MCILHOSE/HOSE (quite rare and many very variable spellings - close to 100 to date), PHILP/PHILIP, VASSIE; Ireland - BOURKE/BURKE, DONOHUE (many spellings), DOOLEY, KINSELLA, MAXWELL, OSBORNE, RAFFERTY, STA(U)NTON, SULLIVAN; England - BAYES, BROWNELL, DALTON, FREEMAN, HACKING, PIERCY, SIDDLE, SWIFT, SULLIVAN, TINK(L)ER, TRIPPIT. Any spellings and many other names!
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