« Reply #19 on: Thursday 05 July 18 19:53 BST (UK) »
Wow, I only went to have my evening meal and then water the garden and there are three pages - thank you all.
I see it as Searger, or possibly Scarger (the enumerator's "c" are very similar to his "e"). I thought of Serger as in the material Serge, but I've never come across it as an occupation. I think Arthurk may well be right though - if it's a dialect word is it likely to be used as an occupation? And is it a Yorkshire dialect word?
I can't find this individual on later Censuses - his real name is Joseph and he is with his parents in Somerset in 1851. John, I assume, is a transcription mistake - perhaps the enumerator used abbreviations (Jno/Jos) and confused them in writing out the fair copy,
Steve
Bumstead - London, Suffolk
Plant, Woolnough, Wase, Suffolk
Flexney, Godfrey, Burson, Hobby - Oxfordshire
Street, Mitchell - Gloucestershire
Horwood, Heale Drew - Bristol
Gibbs, Gait, Noyes, Peters, Padfield, Board, York, Rogers, Horler, Heale, Emery, Clavey, Mogg, - Somerset
Fook, Snell - Devon
M(a)cDonald, Yuell, Gollan, McKenzie - Rosshire
McLennan, Mackintosh - Inverness
Williams, Jones - Angelsey & Caernarvon
Campbell, McMartin, McLellan, McKercher, Perthshire
