Any ideas on Occupation please

[giggsycat]

Scenestager (but ending gar?)

[StevieSteve]

Now, that doesn't look a bad effort to me.

I should say that I'm not the one that needs to be convinced, I shall be pointing my colleague to this thread in the morning so the more ideas the better.

Though not on a work-productivity basis

[Geoff-E]

Sceneshiftar = scene-shifter?

That's what I thought.

[isobelw]

My vote is with Sommelier. The enumerator may not have ever heard/ seen the word before and this is an attempt to record the word as he heard. I think it ends in 'yar'
Isobel

[isobelw]

My vote is with Sommelier. The enumerator may not have ever heard/ seen the word before and this is an attempt to record the word as he heard. The first two letters look like 'sc' ( similar to the surname Schofield elsewhere in the document)  I think it ends in 'iyar' - scemaliyar.
Isobel

[StevieSteve]

Thanks G & I

You're making a good case, Isobel!

I have to say that my preference is for scene at the beginning but I've been way, way out on some of these deciphering threads.

[Treetotal]

I too see Sceniatigar but this isn't a word....on the next census he is listed as a Restaurant Waiter so the occupation in 1901 has clearly been misheard or mistranscribed which could be sommelier as suggested Gowjani
Carol

[StevieSteve]

Thanks TT

I've sent the link to my colleague for her perusal

Results later...

[StevieSteve]

She thanks everybody for their help and contributions

Meanwhile, she had been carrying out her own forensic investigation comparing various pieces of Sceniatigar with other entries on the page

This gave

s - as in son
..
ne - as in Jane
shi - as in Monmouthshire (not something I included in my sample)
f - as in wife
ter - as in Fitter (again not in my sample)

Looking closer at our word, what I and others have been seeing as 'ar' is 'ter' with the left of the 'a' being the 't' and there is a barely perceptible loop of the 'e' on the right of the 'a'


I'm completely convinced so thanks again to all, and big congrats to GR2 and Geoff-E