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"coal merchant's bag cassier"
« on: Wednesday 14 June 06 23:31 BST (UK) »
On one of my birth certificates for an ancestor, I have found an occupation in 1913 that reads something similar to:

"coal merchant's bag cassier"

Is this actually correct? If so, what was the role of this person?

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Re: "coal merchant's bag cassier"
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 14 June 06 23:41 BST (UK) »
How clear is the writing?  Could cassier be carrier?


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Re: "coal merchant's bag cassier"
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 14 June 06 23:43 BST (UK) »
Quote from: nanny jan on Wednesday 14 June 06 23:41 BST (UK)
How clear is the writing?  Could cassier be carrier?

Yes, it could well be. So he would have been a bagboy for a coal merchant?

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Re: "coal merchant's bag cassier"
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 14 June 06 23:52 BST (UK) »
I've tried to find this occupation on various sites but no luck. Perhaps you could put that part of the certificate on a posting so we could all have a go!

Got to turn in now; early start tomorrow.


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Howard , Viney , Kingsman, Pain/e, Rainer/ Rayner, Barham, George, Wakeling (Catherine), Vicary (Frederick)   all LDN area/suburbs  Ottley/ MDX,
Henman/ KNT   Gandy/LDN before 1830  Burgess/LDN
Barham/SFK   Rainer/CAN (Toronto) Gillians/CAN  Sturgeon/CAN (Vancouver)
Bailey/LDN Page/KNT   Paling/WA (var)



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Re: "coal merchant's bag cassier"
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 15 June 06 00:16 BST (UK) »
My Dad was a Coal Merchant in Birmingham. The chaps that delivered the coal, delivered it in 1cwt bags......some they carried on their back up 2 flights of stairs....Oh the stories I have heard of coal being delivered to the bathtub....the back bedroom....all over the place!

I would bet money that it's bag carrier.

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Re: "coal merchant's bag cassier"
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 15 June 06 00:26 BST (UK) »
So in essence, a coal merchant was somebody who sold coal and the bag carrier was the delivery man so to speak?

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Re: "coal merchant's bag cassier"
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 15 June 06 00:31 BST (UK) »
I would say...Yes!
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