Completed: what sort of housekeepr

[Bigclick]

Anyone see what the original is under the enumerators verbostic scribles? Something to do with Nop housekeeper?

[Gadget]

It looks like Hop warehouse 

Was it in Kent by any chance?

[Bigclick]

It was 39 Borough High Street Southwark St Saviour
Gosh that was quick!

[Plummiegirl]

NOP Workhouse

She was probably either the Housekeeper to the overseer of the workhouse, or it was a workhouse set up in a row/group of houses and she was "in charge" of one of the houses.

No idea what NOP meant.  It definately looks like Nop to me.  "Not of Parish"?

[Gadget]

Still think it's a Hop Warehouse - can you give the census ref or the census year to see what other occupations there were.

If it was housekeeper in a workhouse, it would be indicated on the sheet.

[JenB]

If it's the 1901 census - look on the surrounding pages - there are loads of hop warehousemen and hop merchants around 

[Gadget]

Just looked it up on the 1891  - it was very close to the Kings Head Inn 

[JenB]

There were, apparently, 'innumerable' hop warehouses on Borough High Street

http://breweryhistory.com/journal/archive/123/Hop.pdf

[JenB]

She was probably either the Housekeeper to the overseer of the workhouse, or it was a workhouse set up in a row/group of houses and she was "in charge" of one of the houses.

You can see that above the words 'hop warehouse' someone (categorizing occupations) has written 'Caret.' - i.e. she was a caretaker rather than a housekeeper as we understand the word today.

Jennifer