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Can't decipher anyone's job on this census - help gratefully accepted.
« on: Monday 31 July 17 15:27 BST (UK) »
In 1901 in Manchester (Ed 52, piece 3699, folio 69, page 13, Schedule 64 Ancestry Scan) I simply cannot decipher the occupations of William Kay, the Head of the Household, or his elder daughter Elizabeth (younger daughter Agnes appears to have the same occupation as Elizabeth).
I cannot work it out at all, please, if anyone would like to have a look - I can't manage to produce an image of it for putting on here - I would be very grateful.
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Re: Can't decipher anyone's job on this census - help gratefully accepted.
« Reply #1 on: Monday 31 July 17 15:32 BST (UK) »
William is a Knocker up

Elizabeth is a Tin Box Maker.

The enumerator writes a 'k' in a way that makes it look like two separate letters.
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Re: Can't decipher anyone's job on this census - help gratefully accepted.
« Reply #2 on: Monday 31 July 17 15:54 BST (UK) »
Knocker-up could be for workpeople, a printer's, or boot manufacture.

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Re: Can't decipher anyone's job on this census - help gratefully accepted.
« Reply #3 on: Monday 31 July 17 16:35 BST (UK) »
Tin Box Maker?

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Re: Can't decipher anyone's job on this census - help gratefully accepted.
« Reply #4 on: Monday 31 July 17 16:53 BST (UK) »
Thank you - it seems so wretchedly obvious when someone else has "seen" it. Thank you, JenB, stanmapstone and giggsycat.
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Re: Can't decipher anyone's job on this census - help gratefully accepted.
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 01 August 17 16:51 BST (UK) »
Tried to make this show "topic completed". Hope it works.
Threlfall (Southport), Isherwood (lancs & Canada), Newbould + Topliss(Derby), Keating & Cummins (Ireland + lancs), Fisher, Strong& Casson (all Cumberland) & Downie & Bowie, Linlithgow area Scotland . Also interested in Leigh& Burrows,(Lancashire) Griffiths (Shropshire & lancs), Leaver (Lancs/Yorks) & Anderson(Cumberland and very elusive)
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