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Hi
Does anyone know what this profession would be on an 1841 census? It looks like 'serial property' but am thinking it is something different.
It is for my 4x great-grandfather who was 68 years old at the time and living in Cornwall in a mining area. He had previously been a miner himself.

I just received the death certificate of my 4x great uncle Christopher Pollard who died at Drift, Sancreed on 22/11/1841 at aged 70.

Unusually, there is no cause of death recorded. This section has been left totally blank.

I know in modern times if they were uncertain of the cause of death, they specify if the death is uncertain or presumed. Did the same rules apply in 1841? Or if they just didn't know, they left it blank?

Victorian Police Gazette 8/4/1891 -
A warrant was issued against Robert James Charles Alexander Underdown for 3 months imprisonment, in default of paying a 10 pound fine for obscene language. He was described as "Victorian, labourer, a saw mill hand, 26 years of age, 5 foot 11 inches high, medium build, dark completion and hair, dark-brown moustache and side-boards, may be clean shaved or may have his beard growing which may be rather scanty on the cheeks and of lighter colour on chin than moustache, small squinty eyes, believed to have a mark of cut on chin, peculiar expression on mouth when speaking as if jaw or tongue had been injured; wore black sac suit larrikin cut, back flaps and buttons on coat, bell-bottom trousers with sidepockets in which he usually keeps his hands when walking, pink silk sash round waist, larrikin high-heeled shoes, hair fringed, never wears a collar, but usually has a silk handkerchief round neck, low countenance and appearance. A second warrant of commitment has been issued against him for assault".

What a fabulous description and also provides info on why he may have changed his name and moved to QLD.

thank you all...

Thank you very much for that - greatly appreciated.