Handwriting help please

[Rebecca Totten]

Hi can someone please help me to read what these two occupations say.

I can make out '______ machine worker' i think on the top one. Not sure what the bottom one says though.

[BrazilianBombshell]

'Sewing machine worker'  and Pearl button driller??

[AMBLY]

Hi

I get:

Sewing machine maker
Pearl button driller

Cheers
AMBLY

[AMBLY]

Looking at the full page for the 1871 Census (RG10: Piece 3122/ Folio 22/ Pg37)  it's definitely "maker" not "worker" in William's job description. I also see from their Marriage record (William Matthews and Elizabeth Lewis? 1869?) and the 1881 Census that I think is them - he was a Brass Founder?

I think he probably worked  in that capacity for one of the Sewing Machine manufacturers active in Birmingham at that time:
http://www.sewmuse.co.uk/britishsmm.htm

One of those manufactuers is particularly interesting:
Charles & William Harwood c1855 - 1872 +
as he had a retail premises at New Town Row by 1872 -1876+

and New Town Row is where your William and Elizabeth are living in 1871.


Cheers
AMBLY

[Kiltaglassan]

Hi

I get:

Sewing machine maker
Pearl button driller

Cheers
AMBLY

I also see:
Sewing machine maker
Pearl button driller

KG

[Maiden Stone]

I also see:
Sewing machine maker
Pearl button driller

So do I.

[Rebecca Totten]

Looking at the full page for the 1871 Census (RG10: Piece 3122/ Folio 22/ Pg37)  it's definitely "maker" not "worker" in William's job description. I also see from their Marriage record (William Matthews and Elizabeth Lewis? 1869?) and the 1881 Census that I think is them - he was a Brass Founder?

I think he probably worked  in that capacity for one of the Sewing Machine manufacturers active in Birmingham at that time:
http://www.sewmuse.co.uk/britishsmm.htm

One of those manufactuers is particularly interesting:
Charles & William Harwood c1855 - 1872 +
as he had a retail premises at New Town Row by 1872 -1876+

and New Town Row is where your William and Elizabeth are living in 1871.


Cheers
AMBLY

Thank you that is very interesting and all those Census records are ones i have been looking at today and double checking if they are the same people and you have probably just confirmed it for me.