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Offline 111den111

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cant read a bit on census
« on: Friday 18 December 09 11:17 GMT (UK) »
Hi everyone,

Sorry to keep being a pain, but I am trying to make a family history book for my nan for christmas and keep getting stuck on the old handwritting used in the census.  I am not very good at reading them.  I am stuck on Thomas Prices job, at the bottom with the read stars? Is it a lab? short for labourer?

http://i839.photobucket.com/albums/zz315/louisefi1/newcensus.jpg

HO107/560/10 26 p44

thank you very much

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Re: cant read a bit on census
« Reply #1 on: Friday 18 December 09 11:28 GMT (UK) »
Hi

It looks to me to be "Ind" - short for "Independent"

Anna :)
Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)

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Re: cant read a bit on census
« Reply #2 on: Friday 18 December 09 12:00 GMT (UK) »
I agree, looks like ind, which means living on independent means, i.e. had his own private income.

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Re: cant read a bit on census
« Reply #3 on: Friday 18 December 09 13:57 GMT (UK) »
Definitely Ind. But it looks to me he is Not born in County. There is also an Ann Price age 50 on the next Census page who is.

Trish :)
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