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Offline janan

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Re: What does this read as
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 19 November 15 13:16 GMT (UK) »
Wait (presumably weight) Taker with Meter added in different hand by census office?

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Re: What does this read as
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 19 November 15 13:28 GMT (UK) »
Agree "weight taker"

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« Reply #11 on: Thursday 19 November 15 13:32 GMT (UK) »
Weight taker; stands by weigher and, as latter calls-out weights of goods loaded into vessels or onloaded therefrom, records weights of each class of goods. "A Dictionary of Occupational Terms"
In the 1881 census here are 147 Weight Takers in Liverpool.
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Re: What does this read as
« Reply #12 on: Thursday 19 November 15 13:52 GMT (UK) »
From the OED. METER (now rare) A person who measures, a measurer; esp. one responsible for seeing that commodities are traded according to the proper measure.

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Re: What does this read as
« Reply #13 on: Thursday 19 November 15 15:29 GMT (UK) »
Thanks, you beat me to adding his name.
1891  Toxteth
Joseph Ince  67   b Bangor
Ann Ince  65 b Worthanle, Lancashire
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« Reply #14 on: Thursday 19 November 15 15:56 GMT (UK) »
The Genealogist have trancribed this as West Taker.
Williams, Owens, Pritchard, Povall, Banks, Brown.

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« Reply #15 on: Thursday 19 November 15 16:14 GMT (UK) »
There are 147 Weight Takers in Liverpool in the 1881 Census.

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Re: What does this read as
« Reply #16 on: Thursday 19 November 15 19:03 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: mosiefish on Thursday 19 November 15 13:05 GMT (UK)
RG12/ 2932; Folio: 24; Page: 42

Definitely starts with a W then Taker Meter.  Could be a mispelling of Weight  :-\



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