Help Reading Occupation Please

[kerryb]

You beat me to it Jen    Too hot to type very fast 

I think we may have cracked another one

Kerry

[Gadget]

There  all it needed was a good look at

[JenB]

I only saw it after Gadget said 'upholsterer' so she got there first  

[Siamese Girl]

I did wonder about upholder - but didn't think it could have been an occupation! Upholsterer looks the most likely doesn't it?

It now looks like I've got to look for a Mr Maynard in soft furnishings ...

Thanks all.

Carole

[Gadget]

Slightly off topic -

This morning I was looking through an old 1792 parish census for Balmaclellan in Kirkcudbrightshire. The booklet also contains various snippets, including one for the cost of materials for upholstering the pulpit of the church - it was over £9 even then. It might have been Scots £s though but it does seem a lot 


Gadget

[JenB]

I think it's 'upholder'.
Which, apparently, is an archaic form of 'upholsterer'.

Also see
http://www.upholders.co.uk/

You learn something new every day!

[anonymouse]

I think it says 'upholder', which is an archaic term for upholsterer - the downstroke of the 'p' being separated from the rest of the letter. Is the letter form repeated anywhere in a more obvious word ?  Or does anything in the rest of the document suggest the same? 

Graham

[JenB]

I think it says 'upholder', which is an archaic term for upholsterer

Hi Graham - I think you must have missed my reply number 17 above 

Jennifer

[anonymouse]

I did - so absorbed in the handwriting I completely missed page two !
Whoops...
Graham