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Re: Occupation Decipher
« Reply #9 on: Monday 30 July 07 22:07 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Lydart on Monday 30 July 07 19:02 BST (UK)
Agree !

Its that funny loopy S that confuses I think.

As Lydart said...It was used as an "s" especially when there were double "s"es... ....Nevermind...
it gets harder when some tended to use it as a single "s"  :P :P
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Re: Occupation Decipher
« Reply #10 on: Monday 30 July 07 22:18 BST (UK) »
I'm voting for Ham Dresser - compare the 'm' in James and the same ending flourish on the  'm' below.

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Re: Occupation Decipher
« Reply #11 on: Monday 30 July 07 22:23 BST (UK) »
Never !    If you ARE right, then 'ham' for some odd reason has four down strokes in the 'm' ... whereas if its hair, then there's an h, an a, an i, and one of those funny backwards r's ...

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Re: Occupation Decipher
« Reply #12 on: Monday 30 July 07 22:24 BST (UK) »
There are 3 stokes!
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Re: Occupation Decipher
« Reply #13 on: Monday 30 July 07 22:37 BST (UK) »
It's definitely hairdresser.  ::)
There is an upstroke from the "i" to the "r" in "hair" which isn't present in the "m"

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Re: Occupation Decipher
« Reply #14 on: Monday 30 July 07 22:44 BST (UK) »
Well, I can see a faint curve on the top of what you see as the i.

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Re: Occupation Decipher
« Reply #15 on: Monday 30 July 07 22:49 BST (UK) »
Although it's missing in this copy, there is the beginnings of an upstroke at the base of the "i".  I had a photoshop fiddle  ;D  and it's definitely an "i".

Anyway, would Ham Dresser have been his one and only occupation?  It was surely part of a wider job to do with food dressing or preparation.  I can't believe that someone would have specialised in ham dressing!  ;) ;D

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Re: Occupation Decipher
« Reply #16 on: Monday 30 July 07 22:52 BST (UK) »
stranger things have happened - but it would have been seasonal then - autumn/winter, I'd say.  When did Barber become the alternative description?
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Re: Occupation Decipher
« Reply #17 on: Monday 30 July 07 23:34 BST (UK) »
Right! Barbers did men's hair and maids did ladies. I think they'd got beyond wigs by 1840 hadn't they?
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