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ignz
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Interesting Occupation
« on: Monday 06 July 09 02:24 UTC (UK) »
Thought this might amuse?
Came across the attached for one of my other half's ancestors (in 1901 ), 7th line down, and can just see the poor enumerator writing what he heard then doing a double-take...what, no eye-patch or parrot on shoulder, oh you said...

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Colvin, Shannon, Kay, Taylor, Ross, Burns, Blisset, Faza(c)kerley, Gardner

Liverpool, Wiltshire, Isle of Man, New Brunswick
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Re: Interesting Occupation
« Reply #1 on: Monday 06 July 09 08:58 UTC (UK) »
Actually the correction will have been made by the clerk in the census office extracting occupations, (the handwriting is different) not the enumerator, who had to copy what had been entered on the householder's schedule into his enumerator's book. The previous occupations have also been change to accepted definitions.

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Mapstone, Mapston. Sunderland, Somerset
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Rosalie Mathilda Jönsson 1916-1999
Re: Interesting Occupation
« Reply #2 on: Monday 06 July 09 09:44 UTC (UK) »
Whoever did it, it's very funny  Cheesy Cheesy

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Re: Interesting Occupation
« Reply #3 on: Monday 06 July 09 09:51 UTC (UK) »
I think it's hilarious - wait till Celia sees it  Grin Grin Grin
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Re: Interesting Occupation
« Reply #4 on: Monday 06 July 09 11:10 UTC (UK) »
Oow, was his name Johny Depp?
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ENNIS-Yeatman-Cooper-Papps-Lockyer-Ryland-Skivington-Blackford. 
ENNIS-Thomas-Bonnin-Aldridge-Williams-Harding-Brown.
ENNIS-Davis.
JONES-Walton-Grayson-Stobbs-Baldwin-Ibbotson-Scott.
JONES-Goodwin-Parker-Instant-Hubbard-Hancock-Skinner.

LOST: Elizabeth Anne Balfour DAVIS. First seen aboard ship STATELY, 1851, heading for New Zealand.
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Re: Interesting Occupation
« Reply #5 on: Monday 06 July 09 11:15 UTC (UK) »
@ Loney - how d'ya guess? Not related to your ancestor Skullencross by any chance ?
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Colvin, Shannon, Kay, Taylor, Ross, Burns, Blisset, Faza(c)kerley, Gardner

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Re: Interesting Occupation
« Reply #6 on: Monday 06 July 09 11:22 UTC (UK) »
Nope.
I have a Captain COOPER and a lighthouse keeper named JONES, but I haven't found any pirates, yet.  Grin
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ENNIS-Yeatman-Cooper-Papps-Lockyer-Ryland-Skivington-Blackford. 
ENNIS-Thomas-Bonnin-Aldridge-Williams-Harding-Brown.
ENNIS-Davis.
JONES-Walton-Grayson-Stobbs-Baldwin-Ibbotson-Scott.
JONES-Goodwin-Parker-Instant-Hubbard-Hancock-Skinner.

LOST: Elizabeth Anne Balfour DAVIS. First seen aboard ship STATELY, 1851, heading for New Zealand.
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