What does this profession say?

[Chris Anderson]

[caro-dee]

At first sight looks like Tobacco Spinners Apprentice?  A new one on me!
Caro

[sallyyorks]

Some kind of textiles? spinner.
What location is it ?

[DavidJP]

Hi,

I also see 'Tobacco Spinners Apprentice'.

From my old occupations book:

A Tobacco Spinner is the same as a Tobacco Roller = a Cigar Maker.

Hope this helps.

Kind regards

David

[Chris Anderson]

Some kind of textiles? spinner.
What location is it ?

Sunderland

[sallyyorks]

Some kind of textiles? spinner.
What location is it ?

Sunderland

Less likely to be textiles related then.

It does look like 'tobacco', as other posters have suggested.

[stanmapstone]

In the England 1881 Census there are 656 Tobacco Spinners
Sunderland 1881 Census RG11 Piece 5000 Folio 55 Page 7
Stan

[Jebber]

According to Scotlands People.

One who prepares tobacco for sale.

[stanmapstone]

Spinner (roll and cake); operates spinning machine used for making tobacco into a larger and more compressed roll, e.g. for Irish Plug; winds rolls made by roll maker-off on to a spool, and passes ends between rollers of spinning machine; also feeds rollers with a hemp cord from a bobbin on machine as machine winds or coils hemp cord round roll of tobacco, inserts leather plugs into coil to compress mass and make it harder; leaves cord round coil until tobacco becomes sufficiently dark.
"A Dictionary of Occupational Terms"

Stan