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Offline mafric

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occupation help please
« on: Sunday 06 August 06 18:18 BST (UK) »
Can anyone tell me what the following means:
Occupation: Storekeeper S.S.CT Eastern
Its the listed occupation of Aubrey Reynolds, on the 1881 census, the family is living in Milford, Pembrokeshire.

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STAFFORDSHIRE -- Critchlow, Crutchley, Broadhurst, Meakin, Cordon, Corden, Berrisford, Hall, Heath, Ashley, Tittle, Bailey, Bayley, Webb, Wade

CHESHIRE Beamer, Bailey, Bayley, Ellis, Potter, Schofield

LANCASHIRE Conway, Beamer, Teasdale, Rice, Lees, Parkinson, Ellis, Potter, Palfreyman, Law, Schofield

DERBYSHIRE, Palfreyman

YORKSHIRE, Spence

IRELAND - Conway, Houlighan, Rice and Mahoney (DUBLIN), WOODLEY (COUNTY CORK, Leades house)

Wales - Pembrokeshire - Summers, Jenkins, Bowla

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Re: occupation help please
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 06 August 06 18:45 BST (UK) »
hi
 To me the  enumeration seems to read
SS GT EASTERN
Steam Ship Great Eastern?
The word dock appears just above
So possibly STOREKEEPER DOCK SS GREAT EASTERN
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Re: occupation help please
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 06 August 06 19:00 BST (UK) »
Hi
Here is a snippet on the Great Eastern.
Plenty more revealed by a Google search

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By 1874 she was laid up to rot in Milford Haven. Fifteen years later, when she was broken up for scrap, they found the skeletons of the riveter and his apprentice in her double hull.
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