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Jamie_W75
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Occupation?..Can anyone read this word?
« on: Sunday 23 January 05 12:04 UTC (UK) »
hi,
  does anyone have any idea what this word might be?. It is on the Fathers name & occupation portion of a Scottish birth certificate.Obviously i have William Anderson & Sailor , but what is the word before ' - Liverpool '.It can't be 'died' or 'dead' as they had another child 3 years later.Also , there looks like an 'RM'  above it. Anyone have any idea's?
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           Jamie

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Re: Occupation?..Can anyone read this word?
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 23 January 05 12:21 UTC (UK) »
hi Jamie,

It looks like it could be "Dud", but as for the squiggle above, I can't see it clearly.

sorry couldn't be of more help. Just a suggestion, follow the line of the other letters and it may help you to decipher it.

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Re: Occupation?..Can anyone read this word?
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 23 January 05 12:29 UTC (UK) »
Could it be domicil written over two lines to say where his ship is based?
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Re: Occupation?..Can anyone read this word?
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 23 January 05 14:27 UTC (UK) »
Domicile - incorrectly spelled. Presumably to indicate that his regular address was in Liverpool.
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Southern or Southan [Hereford , Monmouthshire & Glos], Jenkins, Meredith and Morgan [Monmouthshire and Glos.], Murrill, Damary, Damry, Ray, Lawrence [all Middx. & London], Nethway from Kenn or Yatton. Also Riley and Lyons in South Africa and Riley from St. Helena.
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Re: Occupation?..Can anyone read this word?
« Reply #4 on: Monday 24 January 05 21:11 UTC (UK) »
At first I thought it looked like Decd.  but the writing slightly above the word reminded me of something that I had seen while transcribing a local census and I tend to agree with your other repliers that it is Domicile -  where one actually lives

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Re: Occupation?..Can anyone read this word?
« Reply #5 on: Monday 24 January 05 21:37 UTC (UK) »
I would like to see more of the original to make a decision but for once I am going to disagree I don't think it is domicile.  Looking at the o's elsewhere the o within what would be domicile is nothing like the rest.  Also when you blow it up the squiggle above looks to end in Y.  Then if you look at the d in Anderson the last letter of the first word under Anderson looks very similar to that d.  Ok I know this doesn't help but I would rather but the cat amongst the pigeons than you have it wrong. 

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Re: Occupation?..Can anyone read this word?
« Reply #6 on: Monday 24 January 05 21:59 UTC (UK) »
It's DOMICILE.

The OM has been an afterthought.
The Enumerator was trying his own particular brand of shorthand.
He then though better of it & included the OM & placed the inverted V after the capital D to note that is the place to insert OM.

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Somerset:MASTERS, HACKETT,HINTON,WEEKS,
BOULTON,WRENTMORE/WRINTMORE
Perthshire:CRICHTON,TAYLOR,MOON,IRONS,KIDD
Durham:FENWICK,PUNSHON,EDDY,STEVENSON,HENRY
Northumberland: BUCHANAN, HODGSON
Lincolnshire:MASKEY, BIRD, FISHER, HARLEY,
Cambridge:CROSS,FOREMAN,FREEMAN,ONG,SCOTT,FEAST,MOXON
Gloucestershire,HILL,COX,NEWELL
Sussex:CHAPMAN,STEVENS,DOWNER
Surrey:NEWELL, LENEY, WEBB
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