Boatman but can't read the following word????

[pipkim]

I found my Great Grandmother in 1881 living with her uncle and aunt in the parish of St Georges, Hanover Square (Alyesford Street), Westminster Borough.

His occupation looks to be Boatman but I can't make out the other word, maybe it's the boat he belonged to /worked on.

Is there anyone out there, who has better eyes than me and could tell me what it might say?

I would like to try and find out why she lived with them or what life was like for her at this point in time.

Many thanks 

[Necromancer]

It might be 'Lighterman' ?

Worker on a flat-bottomed boat

[PaulineJ]

I'll go with Lighterman.

There may be apprenticeship records for that. Try googling.

Pauline

[pipkim]

Thanks for the fresh pairs of eyes ScRoppers and Pauline, I'll look into that, it looks quite likely.

The more I looked, the more it looked like Ly?? must be going blind.

Pipkim 

[stanmapstone]

The 1881 transcript has
George HOOKER   M   35    M   Basingstoke, Hampshire, England
   Rel:   Head
   Occ:   Boatman (Lynterman)

Which is obviously Lighterman.

Stan

[subee]

I think I would go with lighterman too - they worked on barges and the like so it's a possible, it does look like Lyterman so maybe it was just mis spelt!?

subee x

[pipkim]

Thanks for that Stan, George Hooker it is, have I left a trail or is he the only one in that area?

I've just goggled Lighterman and found this if anyone has boatmen or anything to do with boats and I guess ports, in their family:

www.portcities.org.uk

Hope that works.

Many thanks Pipkim  

[stanmapstone]

It looks to me that 'Lighterman' is in a different handwriting and was probably made by made by one of the census clerks at the census office.
Occupations were abstracted under certain standard headings using occupational dictionaries specifically designed for the purpose. In this process the books were altered and annotated, on the original books these are in coloured inks, crayon, or pencil, and can easily be differentiated from the enumerators' returns. On monochrome microfilm these additions are difficult to differentiate.
A boatman was a different catagory to a lighterman, and there were about ten different types of boatman.

As for finding George Hooker, you gave his address as Aylesford Street.

Stan

[pipkim]

I think I'll investigate him further and see what other occupations he had, if any, and when he died.

I know his father and older brother were coachbuilders who moved to St Georges Hanover Square by 1861. (I can't find much trace of them as yet, other than the census info)

It certainly adds more detail to the life of the Hooker family in London.

Pipkim