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Help Needed with Occupation on Census
« on: Thursday 22 November 12 23:01 GMT (UK) »
Hi

Can sks please help me to decipher the occupation of Edmund Lawrence at 4 Orchard Street, St Albans as it has totally confused me lol

RG13/1311/73

Thank you in anticipation

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Beds: Chapman, Norris, Nicholls
Cul:  Bone, Casson, Cuppage, Ellwood, Harrington, Harrison, Huddleston, Mawson, McAvoy, Rooney, Sherwen, Singleton, Stephenson, Taylor, Tunstall, Tyson, Wedgwood, Whitehead, Woodall
Herts:  Chapman, Merridan, Seymour
Ire:  Macken, McAvoy, Rooney
Lancs:  Casson, Dixon, Huddleston, Hunter, Muschamp, Skirrow Stephenson, Tyson
Staffs:  Burslem, Tunstall, Wedgwood
Yorks:  Harrison, Lund, Roberts, Swire


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Re: Help Needed with Occupation on Census
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 22 November 12 23:05 GMT (UK) »
Hi he is a Silk Throwster ie a Silk Spinner, one who twists or spins silk and prepares it for weaving.

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Pelly/Pelley/Kingsbury/Challis/Nalder/Rochester/Raydenbow

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Re: Help Needed with Occupation on Census
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 22 November 12 23:07 GMT (UK) »
Hi

Thank you for ending this confusion.

Regards

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Beds: Chapman, Norris, Nicholls
Cul:  Bone, Casson, Cuppage, Ellwood, Harrington, Harrison, Huddleston, Mawson, McAvoy, Rooney, Sherwen, Singleton, Stephenson, Taylor, Tunstall, Tyson, Wedgwood, Whitehead, Woodall
Herts:  Chapman, Merridan, Seymour
Ire:  Macken, McAvoy, Rooney
Lancs:  Casson, Dixon, Huddleston, Hunter, Muschamp, Skirrow Stephenson, Tyson
Staffs:  Burslem, Tunstall, Wedgwood
Yorks:  Harrison, Lund, Roberts, Swire


Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives