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Offline Kerby

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Occupation please?
« on: Tuesday 21 May 19 11:08 BST (UK) »
Please can you tell me what the professions are? And for the groom George would it be a stretch for him to be a watchman in 1881?

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Re: Occupation please?
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 21 May 19 11:14 BST (UK) »
Could this be the same man? I can't read the occupation on this either.

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Re: Occupation please?
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 21 May 19 11:16 BST (UK) »
Costermonger on the second image.

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« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 21 May 19 11:18 BST (UK) »
Maybe general dealer on the first one, and crockery dealer for his father.

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Re: Occupation please?
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 21 May 19 11:20 BST (UK) »
On the first one I think the groom is a china dealer (with a huge flourish at the end of china!), his father is a crockery dealer, and the bride's father is a carman.
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« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 21 May 19 11:24 BST (UK) »
So it wouldn't be a stretch that in 1858 he is selling anything, in 1866 he is selling fruit and veg (costermonger) and in 1881 he is a watchman?

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« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 21 May 19 11:26 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Kerby on Tuesday 21 May 19 11:24 BST (UK)
So it wouldn't be a stretch that in 1858 he is selling anything, in 1866 he is selling fruit and veg (costermonger) and in 1881 he is a watchman?

Not at all. With apologies to any watchmen out there, I don't think it's such a highly skilled job that an ex-grocer couldn't step into it.
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