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OCCUPATION - Help please? COMPLETED
« on: Monday 29 November 10 10:16 GMT (UK) »
On a former census this man was described as ship's cook he was only about 16 at the time - seems young to be helping feed the masses but . . .

I can't decipher this though - possibly Master something but  . . .  it doesn't look like chef - or does it??    sorry first one after the ditto -  top of snip!

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Gaunt, Ransom, McNally, Stanfield, Kimberley. (Tasmania)
Brown, Johnstone, Eskdale, Brand  (Dumfriesshire,  Scotland)
Booth, Bruerton, Deakin, Wilkes, Kimberley
(Warwicks, Staffords)
Gaunt (Yorks)
Percy, Dunning, Hyne, Grigg, Farley (Devon, UK)
Duncan (Fife, Devon), Hugh, Blee (Cornwall)
Green, Mansfield, (Herts)
Cavenaugh, Ransom (Middlesex)
 

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Re: OCCUPATION - Help please?
« Reply #1 on: Monday 29 November 10 10:20 GMT (UK) »
I think the first word is 'waiter'.
The second word is in a different hand, and has probably been added later by someone categorizing occupations.

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Re: OCCUPATION - Help please?
« Reply #2 on: Monday 29 November 10 10:23 GMT (UK) »
If the first word is waiter, is the second word Inn?
Steeles, Burton, Garrod (Norfolk), Clarke, Tomblin (Rutland)
Bauer (London, France), Blades, Parker (Surrey)
Edwards, Coles, Smith, Nunley, Craddock, York, & Linnell (Northants) )
Ehmcke, Deimel, Appelkamp (Germany)
Watts (Somerset, Wiltshire) Selway, Churchill, & Chappell (Somerset)
Redwood (Devon, Essex) Button, Archer, Leach (Cambridgeshire)

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« Reply #3 on: Monday 29 November 10 10:40 GMT (UK) »
It could be - that would be the occupational classification.
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Re: OCCUPATION - Help please?
« Reply #4 on: Monday 29 November 10 19:55 GMT (UK) »
Thank you both - the W is like that in Wife isn't it!  Hadn't connected the two. 

That seems fine then - bet his wife was glad he was at home instead of away at sea!

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Gaunt, Ransom, McNally, Stanfield, Kimberley. (Tasmania)
Brown, Johnstone, Eskdale, Brand  (Dumfriesshire,  Scotland)
Booth, Bruerton, Deakin, Wilkes, Kimberley
(Warwicks, Staffords)
Gaunt (Yorks)
Percy, Dunning, Hyne, Grigg, Farley (Devon, UK)
Duncan (Fife, Devon), Hugh, Blee (Cornwall)
Green, Mansfield, (Herts)
Cavenaugh, Ransom (Middlesex)
 

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