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Re: Help with occupation, please
« Reply #9 on: Friday 16 June 17 17:32 BST (UK) »
It can't be Sinker, because it definitely ends -lor. Compare the last three letters to those at the end of Bachelor.

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Re: Help with occupation, please
« Reply #10 on: Friday 16 June 17 17:33 BST (UK) »
Sorry Bob but....

I can't see any resemblance to 'Sinker' so I think your boat has sunk  ;D

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South Uist, Inverness-shire, Scotland:- Bowie, Campbell, Cumming, Currie

Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)

Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling

Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon

Canada:- Callaghan, Cumming, MacPhee

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Re: Help with occupation, please
« Reply #11 on: Friday 16 June 17 17:34 BST (UK) »
... leaving me up the creek, without a paddle :(

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Re: Help with occupation, please
« Reply #12 on: Friday 16 June 17 17:45 BST (UK) »
Back to Port & to the drawing board or...

You could adopt him like they do on Fancestry  ::)

Isn't genealogy fun  :D

Annie
South Uist, Inverness-shire, Scotland:- Bowie, Campbell, Cumming, Currie

Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)

Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling

Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon

Canada:- Callaghan, Cumming, MacPhee

"OLD GENEALOGISTS NEVER DIE - THEY JUST LOSE THEIR CENSUS"

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Re: Help with occupation, please
« Reply #13 on: Saturday 17 June 17 03:07 BST (UK) »
I thought it may have been joiner, if the dot of ink above the word was a misplaced dot belonging to a  letter "i" and not just a blot.
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Re: Help with occupation, please
« Reply #14 on: Saturday 17 June 17 03:21 BST (UK) »
Are you looking at the Groom's father rather than the Bride's father (Joseph)?

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South Uist, Inverness-shire, Scotland:- Bowie, Campbell, Cumming, Currie

Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)

Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling

Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon

Canada:- Callaghan, Cumming, MacPhee

"OLD GENEALOGISTS NEVER DIE - THEY JUST LOSE THEIR CENSUS"

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Re: Help with occupation, please
« Reply #15 on: Sunday 18 June 17 15:18 BST (UK) »
Sorry, I looked at the wrong father. I agree with tailor for bride's father.
Cowban
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