Help reading an occupation

[forthefamily]

1871 Isle of Man Census - Vessels

RG10/ Piece 5771/ Folio 209/ Page 18

The last man listed on the vessel Catherine is a John Callister age 24....he seems to have a different occupation than the rest on the ship.

The copy is very bad but I wonder if someone can take a look and let me know what they think.

Thank you 

mab

[PrueM]

Hi Mab 

You get the good ones, don't you!   

I've clipped that bit of the page and adjusted the levels as much as possible - unfortunately the middle bit of the word is completely missing.
It resembles the word "Joiner" written further up the page, but not enough to make me convinced it's the same...   Then I thought it might be "Sailor" but all the other men on the boat are "Mariners", would there be a difference?

I don't know what it is, sorry 

Prue

[percy porter]

Jailer?

[forthefamily]

Thanks both of you  ....my lot are not easy to find I'm afraid....I was hoping it was Tailor because the  John Callister I was looking for was a tailor. And, you say to yourselves why would a tailor be on a boat...I don't know.....it's the Isle of Man....maybe everyone pitched in during the fishing season. Their home port during the peak season was in Ireland...a little adventure for a 24 year old maybe...hitching a ride 

mab  ...wishfully thinking that I may have actually found one 

[PrueM]

"Jailer" was one of the things I thought of too...

mab, if you look on the page and compare other capital Ts to the first letter of your man's occupation, you might get a match and Tailor might be what it is.

[forthefamily]

Thanks Prue...I think it's tailor. A tailor can fix sails just as well as sew clothes. My mum was a tailor and she could sew everything and anything...no problem.

The Isle of Man is very hard place to research....

mab......

[Little Nell]

For what it's worth, my initial thought was tailor.

Nell

[Daisy Loo]

and for what it's worth as well, I thought Tailor, especially when seeing Prue's copy of it

[forthefamily]

Thank you all....one down....many to go 

mab