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Help with occupation please..!
« on: Sunday 18 June 17 20:48 BST (UK) »
Does anyone have any idea what this might say?

I cannot work it out at all..!

It's a profession/job etc from 19th Century

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« Reply #1 on: Sunday 18 June 17 20:51 BST (UK) »
Brass finisher?

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Hotham, Guilliatt, Brown, Winter, Buck, Webster, Mortimore
Richards, Meredith, Gower, Davies, Todd, Westmacott, Hill
Mid C19 Cardiff and Haverfordwest, the Marychurch family.

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Re: Help with occupation please..!
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 18 June 17 21:02 BST (UK) »
Brass finisher

in the old writing where there are 2 "S" one is usually long and below the line -easily mistaken for an "f"

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Thornhill, Cresswell, Sisson, Harriman, Cripps, Eyre, Walter, Marson, Battison, Holmes, Bailey, Hardman, Fairhurst Noon-mainly in Derbys/Notts-but also Northampton, Oxford, Leics, Lancs-England
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Re: Help with occupation please..!
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 18 June 17 21:03 BST (UK) »
Thanks so much both!

I knew I'd get an answer here, but the speed at which it came - awesome!

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Re: Help with occupation please..!
« Reply #4 on: Monday 19 June 17 13:16 BST (UK) »
I can't work out the second word of this one either:

Fishing...?

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Re: Help with occupation please..!
« Reply #5 on: Monday 19 June 17 13:19 BST (UK) »
Fishing Tackle?

Edit to say I don't know what the end part could be?

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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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« Reply #6 on: Monday 19 June 17 13:21 BST (UK) »
Hi Annie,

That's what I thought too... but wondering if there was an old obscure profession/job that I wasn't aware of! I wonder what a 'fishing tackle' might've done??

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« Reply #7 on: Monday 19 June 17 13:24 BST (UK) »
Could the end part which looks like a blob  :-\ be a do/ditto ?

If so what word is used above?

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 #8 on: Monday 19 June 17 13:25 BST (UK) »
It's actually the line below my initial request (I didn't ask about it/request it first time round), but the line above is 'Brass Finisher'. This is his wife and her profession.
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