Help to decypher occupation

[Paul E]

Hi

I wonder if anyone can help with the occupation for Richard Garbutt?
It's puzzling me!

cheers

Paul

[bekahsgran]

Hi
I think ther main entry says 'In firm', still looking at the added bit, could it say 'clinical'?
Anne

[Hackstaple]

It looks like Child Infirm - the word child being added. Guess what it means - Infirm is obvious although it had several shades of meaning and like a child?

[Paul E]

Thanks for that - it's very helpful ... I wonder if it might mean 'in firm' as in working in the family business, which was corn milling?  Richard later crops up as a grocer, and shows up in the 1901 census, and there's no disability marked.

cheers

Paul

[pjbuk007]

I think it is "Child Infirm" which would have meant that he had some sort of illness/disability AT THAT TIME which prevented him from working.

[PaulaToo]

And now for something totally different....

I think it looks as though when the census was written out, it was put down as Infirm...and 'died' added shortly after.

He didn't? Did he?

[carol8353]

Paul

Which census is this from- it'd be so much easier to look at it on screen and blow it up to read the writing ,before deciding what it says.

The ref would be handy too 

Regards

Carol

[Paul E]

Hi Carol

This is from the 1861 census, RG 9 / 3196 / ED 4f  P63

Richard appears in later censuses, so we can rule out 'died' I guess.

cheers

Paul

[carol8353]

Hi Paul

It's no clearer now I know the ref 

Higher up the page someone is a Bud Lager........or so it appears!

I see he is a grocer in later life.

How about posting this on the Yorkshire board so someone with more local knowledge of possible jobs might be able to decipher it?

All the best

Carol (fridge magnet still going strong!)