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Offline Mike Thw

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What is this Occupation?
« on: Saturday 01 December 18 11:09 GMT (UK) »
In 1911 an Edward Mockett living in Deptford is recorded as a "Glourbus Maker". I've tried Google and not found anything.

Anybody help?

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Re: What is this Occupation?
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 01 December 18 11:13 GMT (UK) »
Never heard of it but as he works for a Chemical Merchant, I guess it's something chemical or scientific.

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Re: What is this Occupation?
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 01 December 18 11:15 GMT (UK) »
Yes, my thoughts too. Perhaps it's a Victorian/Edwardian Patent Medicine (???)

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Re: What is this Occupation?
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 01 December 18 11:16 GMT (UK) »
It’s coded 787 which corresponds to “Manufacturing Chemist”.  I haven’t heard of it either.
Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)

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Re: What is this Occupation?
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 01 December 18 12:14 GMT (UK) »
There does not appear to be any such word as "glourbus", in a Dictionary of Occupations, newspaper reports/advertisements, or dictionaries.

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Re: What is this Occupation?
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 01 December 18 12:33 GMT (UK) »
Glossary of chemical names tells me there was a “Glaubers salt”. Sodium sulphate

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Re: What is this Occupation?
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 01 December 18 12:39 GMT (UK) »
Aha - so he was a Glaubers maker. That makes sense.

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It's Edgar William Mockett
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Re: What is this Occupation?
« Reply #7 on: Saturday 01 December 18 13:03 GMT (UK) »
Solved!!

I knew the answer would be on this site.

Thanks people
Mike  :D

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Re: What is this Occupation?
« Reply #8 on: Saturday 01 December 18 14:08 GMT (UK) »
An unusual occupation but not unique. This one is in Bromley:
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