Fathers occupation

[lennonjohn]

Hi I'm hoping someone can help decipher the occupation of the father  of 2 brothers married at St Andrews Church, Bebington.

The census 1841 - 1871 has father John as a slubber and 1881 mill cleaner. The occupation on the marriage cert looks like engineer, what do you think?



Any help is much appreciated.

Jeff

[Mike in Cumbria]

John is definitely an engineer on the second extract. I think the first one is also a strange mis-spelling of engineer too. The second half of the word is identical to the other engineer (Nicholas Wade), even though the first few letters are strangely mashed up.

[suey]

I agree with Engineer.   A slubber was a person who removed the imperfections in yarn before spinning and if later he was cleaning the mill workings maybe he considered himself an 'engineer'.  However it's not unusual to find folk or their family inventing a better occupation for themselves on marriage certifcates.

I have one chap on marriage cert described as a fishmonger, the census of the same year has him as a fishmongers labourer , similarly an ag lab appears on his daughters marriage cert as a farmer!

[Mike in Cumbria]

Although the more I look at it, the less sure I am!

I now think it is Spinner.

Mike

[tidybooks]

Hi Mike,

I think first occupation is Spinner, also.

Tom

[lennonjohn]

Thanks for the speedy replies.

I myself thought Allen's was Spinner his wife's father is most definitely engineer and Henry's was Engineer.

any more thoughts welcome

Jeff

[jan57]

Top   occupation for John  looks like a Spinner  to me  too ,  and  the bottom one for  him an Engineer ,

[veeblevort]

Top:Spinner
Bottom: Engineer

The first letter of the top one is clearly not an E. Counting vertical strokes in the letters of the top one produces a double n so definitely not Engineer for the top one.

vv.

[lennonjohn]

Thanks to all, I think that's cleared up 

Jeff