help with occupation

[chwiliwr]

Can anyone help with deciphering the 'occupation' of Evan Frances in 1871. In previous censuses he was recorded as a weaver.

[Gadget]

It looks like  a Union <something>. Can you give more details so we can look at a larger image, please?

[rosie99]

RG10 / 5627
Folio   22
Page   9

[JenB]

The first word is definitely Union, but I can't make anything sensible yet of the second word 

[rosie99]

I can't make sense of it either

I wondered if their income was coming from the parish/union 

[Gadget]

Got it enlarged but, like Rosie - could it be something to do with parish?

Sorry, Jennifer - you image didn't show on the listing 

[arthurk]

Could it be an attempt at Pauper? Some of the spellings in that piece seem a bit unconventional, so maybe the writer, or the people whose returns he was copying from, was more proficient in Welsh than English.

[JenB]

I was thinking along the same lines. Searching the census with the term union p* as an occupation seems to result mainly with 'union pauper' or 'union pay'.

[Gadget]

Poplous