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Passenger List Handwriting (Occupation Listing)
« on: Thursday 04 April 13 11:13 BST (UK) »
I am trying to determine what might the listed occupation for Peter Devlin.  Any suggestions?

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Re: Passenger List Handwriting (Occupation Listing)
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 04 April 13 11:24 BST (UK) »
May be the person's shorthand for "Gas stoker" (?)

Or it's something ..RN?

There's another on the same page - a James Ryan.

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Re: Passenger List Handwriting (Occupation Listing)
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 04 April 13 11:30 BST (UK) »
The Peter Devlin I have been searching was a flax dresser.  He did have a son who was a gas stoker.

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Re: Passenger List Handwriting (Occupation Listing)
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 04 April 13 11:46 BST (UK) »
Have you picked him up in the 1910 US Federal Census? To see whether he's working in the same trade?

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Re: Passenger List Handwriting (Occupation Listing)
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 04 April 13 20:09 BST (UK) »
I would go for Gnl Lr = general labourer

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Re: Passenger List Handwriting (Occupation Listing)
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 04 April 13 23:23 BST (UK) »
Hi jrchdsimss,

In 1910 he would be about 73 years old.  I think his working days were probably over.  In the 1910 Census he is listed as an in-law living with his son in Philadelphia.  I suspect that he may have originally came over in 1894, returned to Ireland around 1896, and immigrated again in 1898. 

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