Alexander Evans' occupation please. 1864 Death Cert.

[Liviani]

Struggling to work out the occupation of my 6x great-grandfather Alexander Evans in this snippet of the death certificate of his son James Evans. Death cert from Farnell, Scotland. James Evans was married to Mary Cloudsley if this helps with recognition. The occupation is listed under Alexander's name.

To me it looks like Free - stone -   It doesn't look like 'mason' to me at all. Possibly also 'Fire' something?

Any help appreciated on this one, spent a while trying to work it out to no avail.

[Rosinish]

Looks like..Fire? Stone Quarrier

Annie

[Rosinish]

Think you're correct with 'Free' Liviani as a 'google' search brings it up i.e. the mark that looks like a dotted 'i' is likely wrong.

Annie

[Liviani]

Think you're correct with 'Free' Liviani as a 'google' search brings it up i.e. the mark that looks like a dotted 'i' is likely wrong.

Annie

Many thanks Annie.

That Q is very 'different', no wonder I couldn't see Quarrier.

So it would be a 'Free-Stone Quarrier'? So he would quarry freestone like this perhaps?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freestone_(masonry)

Jill.

[Rosinish]

Yes, but I checked a few things;

"Blue-grey freestone from Leoch Quarry, north-west of Dundee"

Scroll down to "Sandstones of Angus" written in Bold.

http://earthwise.bgs.ac.uk/index.php/Building_stones_of_Edinburgh:_stratigraphy_and_origin_of_sandstones


Annie

[Liviani]

Yes, but I checked a few things;

"Blue-grey freestone from Leoch Quarry, north-west of Dundee"

Scroll down to "Sandstones of Angus" written in Bold.

http://earthwise.bgs.ac.uk/index.php/Building_stones_of_Edinburgh:_stratigraphy_and_origin_of_sandstones


Annie

Wow, great find Annie. Thank you!

So, paving stones for Edinburgh primarily from the Carmyllie and Angus quarries. I wonder if any of these are still in place in Edinburgh today?

This is actually really interesting as it mentions Carmyllie quarries here.

Alexander Evans and his wife Margaret Williamson had three children in the Carmyllie Parish. Sometimes indexed as 'Evens'.

Jean b.1792
James b.1794
Janet b.1795

They appear to have moved after this and had two more children but this time in Inverkeilor Parish, they were;

Robert b.1797 and
William b.1800

Great find once again! Thank you.

Jill.

[Rosinish]

I would imagine there are still many in existence in Edinburgh being an old City & still many original old streets.

Probably 'google' searches would find something.

When I do searches, I use different terms or I'd be scrolling for weeks 

I used Quarries & Angus being as it was in relation to the area on the DC.

Annie

[Liviani]

I would imagine there are still many in existence in Edinburgh being an old City & still many original old streets.

Probably 'google' searches would find something.

When I do searches, I use different terms or I'd be scrolling for weeks 

I used Quarries & Angus being as it was in relation to the area on the DC.

Annie

I tend to skip the 'easy' stuff and delve right into the small details. I'm a pest for that really. I often miss important details because I'm too busy searching the NLS maps to find locations of things or quarries in this instance. 

I need to remember to get back to basics at times.

[Rosinish]

I guess it depends what I'm researching to be honest & I can spend a lot of hours on 'google' reading different things I find which may lead me onto a different search if I find something of interest mentioned 

Not sure if you have this or if it's relevant to your research but the surname isn't 'common' i'e. thought I would post it anyway, just incase 

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XB64-B93

Annie