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OCCUPATION ABBREVIATION in 1841 census
« on: Tuesday 09 June 15 07:57 BST (UK) »
Hi there

In the 1841 Scotland Census, Lanarchshire, there is an 11 year old boy described as a "Cab Prin Ap". Can anyone help please with what these abbreviations mean?  Ap = Apprentice?.  Prin= Printing??? Cab????
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Re: OCCUPATION ABBREVIATION in 1841 census
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 09 June 15 08:03 BST (UK) »
I wonder if it is a mistranscription of Cal[ico] prin[ter's] Ap[prentice]?

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Re: OCCUPATION ABBREVIATION in 1841 census
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 09 June 15 08:08 BST (UK) »
Suggestion removed due to dates involved. Wrong era.

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Re: OCCUPATION ABBREVIATION in 1841 census
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 09 June 15 08:09 BST (UK) »
Was the boy James Adams? - described as Cal Prin Ap  on FindMyPast

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Re: OCCUPATION ABBREVIATION in 1841 census
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 09 June 15 10:18 BST (UK) »
Prin Ap is likely to be principal apprentice.

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Re: OCCUPATION ABBREVIATION in 1841 census
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 09 June 15 22:10 BST (UK) »
FreeCen show James Adams as a Calico Printer Apprentice as being discussed - www.freecen.org.uk/cgi/search.pl

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Re: OCCUPATION ABBREVIATION in 1841 census
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 09 June 15 23:16 BST (UK) »
No it was not James Adams but James Campbell and the principal apprentice sounds good. Apparently the family were into the weaving business.

Many thanks everyone for your help.
Gray, Madigan, Purdy, Churchwood.

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Re: OCCUPATION ABBREVIATION in 1841 census
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 10 June 15 06:11 BST (UK) »
"Principal" does not make sense. "Calico printer apprentice" gives an occupation before the word apprentice. If you read it as "principal apprentice", then you just have the word "calico", no actual job to be an apprentice in, principal or otherwise.

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Re: OCCUPATION ABBREVIATION in 1841 census
« Reply #8 on: Wednesday 10 June 15 07:40 BST (UK) »
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  WILSON;-Wiltshire.
 SOUL;-Gloucestershire.
 SANSUM;-Berkshire-Wiltshire
 BASSON-BASTON;- Berkshire,- Oxfordshire.
 BRIDGES;- Wiltshire.
 DOWDESWELL;-Wiltshire,Gloucestershire
 JORDAN;- Berkshire.
 COX;- Berkshire.
 GOUDY;- Suffolk.
 CHATFIELD;-Sussex-- London
 MORGAN;-Blaenavon-Abersychan
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