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Manningtree Parish Registers
« on: Sunday 26 August 18 12:05 BST (UK) »
I am seeking help with a small mystery.
I have been looking at the Manningtree parish registers in the 1940s and 1950s. A lot of the brides, grooms and fathers of each have their occupation recorded as B.X.P.
I cannot find any occupation which would be abbreviated this way and wonder if it was a place of work rather than an occupation.

Mike
Halstead ,The Hedinghams,The Maplesteads,The Belchamps,Gosfield,Gestingthorpe,Stisted,Toppesfield

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Re: Manningtree Parish Registers
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 26 August 18 12:31 BST (UK) »
I just googled BXP Manningtree and it gave me British Xylonite Plastics, Manningtree  :-\

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BX_Plastics
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Re: Manningtree Parish Registers
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 26 August 18 12:50 BST (UK) »
Thanks Rosie,
I thought that would be the answer. From the numbers that had that listed as an occupation it must have been (perhaps still is) a large employer.

Mike
Halstead ,The Hedinghams,The Maplesteads,The Belchamps,Gosfield,Gestingthorpe,Stisted,Toppesfield

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Re: Manningtree Parish Registers
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 26 August 18 12:53 BST (UK) »
Just read the Wiki link - appears the company went into liquidation some years ago.

Mike
Halstead ,The Hedinghams,The Maplesteads,The Belchamps,Gosfield,Gestingthorpe,Stisted,Toppesfield
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