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Offline Spotty

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What job is this?
« on: Sunday 31 October 04 06:21 GMT (UK) »


Can anyone identify the occupation of John Unsworth the one on the top?

If it helps the one on the bottom is George Watson Shipwright

Gynane, Unsworth, Birch, Duncan.

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Re: What job is this?
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 31 October 04 06:57 GMT (UK) »
Hard to see, but could it be Maltster?
Godden in East Sussex, mainly Hastings area.
Richards in Lea, Gloucestershire, then London.
Williamson in Leith, Vickers in Nottingham.
Webb in Bildeston and Colchester.
Wesbroom in Kirby le Soken.
Ellington in Harwich.
Park, Palmer, Segar and Peartree in Kersey.

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Re: What job is this?
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 31 October 04 07:55 GMT (UK) »
I thought MALtSTER to, without seeing Sittontrust's reply.  Difficult as it's pretty fuzzy.
Jane
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Re: What job is this?
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 31 October 04 08:04 GMT (UK) »
Hi Spotty ;D

I thought Maltster too before seeing what the others made of it.
Darcy
Fisher, Pitts, Lucas, Emmit, Keal, Bennett, Maddock, Jackson, Pidd, Lincolnshire <br />Bullock, Read, White, Gloucestershire.<br />Shepherd, Foyle, Crowter, Green, Wiltshire<br />Strickland, Fisher, Butterworth, Brown, Northhamptonshire<br />Shepherd, Bullock, Waterhouse, Lancashire
Fisher, Goodwin, Rutland
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Re: What job is this?
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 31 October 04 08:09 GMT (UK) »
The original is no better than this, I thought something like Maleter?? but I have no idea what a one of those is or a Malster come to think of it!!

Why couldn't they write in print...... ::)
Gynane, Unsworth, Birch, Duncan.

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Re: What job is this?
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 31 October 04 08:15 GMT (UK) »
Mulateer - a man in charge of a string of pack mules. This could be an army title.
Beard Voyce, Scrivens in Worcestershire

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Re: What job is this?
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 31 October 04 08:17 GMT (UK) »
Hi again Spotty,
you will find the occupation Malster listed here.
Darcy
www.cpcug.org/user/jlacombe/terms.html - 93k u will fi
Fisher, Pitts, Lucas, Emmit, Keal, Bennett, Maddock, Jackson, Pidd, Lincolnshire <br />Bullock, Read, White, Gloucestershire.<br />Shepherd, Foyle, Crowter, Green, Wiltshire<br />Strickland, Fisher, Butterworth, Brown, Northhamptonshire<br />Shepherd, Bullock, Waterhouse, Lancashire
Fisher, Goodwin, Rutland
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Re: What job is this?
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 31 October 04 09:23 GMT (UK) »
.......and a Malster is.....MALSTER
A person who prepared malt for the brewing industry.

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Re: What job is this?
« Reply #8 on: Sunday 31 October 04 09:41 GMT (UK) »
Don't want to be picky, but the word is "maltster" - with a T in the middle.
Godden in East Sussex, mainly Hastings area.
Richards in Lea, Gloucestershire, then London.
Williamson in Leith, Vickers in Nottingham.
Webb in Bildeston and Colchester.
Wesbroom in Kirby le Soken.
Ellington in Harwich.
Park, Palmer, Segar and Peartree in Kersey.
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