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Can't decipher the word after scholar?
« on: Thursday 04 July 19 23:29 BST (UK) »
Looking for clarification of the word after scholar, screenshot attached. Full details below.

Name   Rebecca Cooper
Age   7
Estimated Birth Year   1844
Relation   Daughter
Father's Name   Henry Cooper
Mother's Name   Ann Cooper
Gender   Female
Where born   Aylmerton, Norfolk, England
Civil parish   Aylmerton
County/Island   Norfolk
Country   England
Registration district   Erpingham
Sub-registration district   North Walsham
ED, institution, or vessel   12
Household schedule number   4
Piece   1809
Folio   513
Page number   2

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Re: Can't decipher the word after scholar?
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 04 July 19 23:54 BST (UK) »
It looks like "unass..." I thought unassisted but the ending isn't right
The first letter could be S, he did his letter S like that
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Re: Can't decipher the word after scholar?
« Reply #2 on: Friday 05 July 19 00:09 BST (UK) »
Is it anything to do with entry below which has been crossed out?

End bit looks like mother/maker/worker (sorry I'm no help)

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Re: Can't decipher the word after scholar?
« Reply #3 on: Friday 05 July 19 00:33 BST (UK) »
Is it anything to do with entry below which has been crossed out?

End bit looks like mother/maker/worker (sorry I'm no help)

Thanks. I think the deleted entry below says "Ag. Lab", removing the stem of the L would make the word above be maker/mother/worker you're right.

She grows up to be a dressmaker, but the beginning doesn't really look like dress.


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Re: Can't decipher the word after scholar?
« Reply #4 on: Friday 05 July 19 00:53 BST (UK) »
Could the word have nothing to do with the scholar line and be an alternative for the crossed out word...which i agree looks like agricultural labourer

Pauper worker (crossed out ag lab)?

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Re: Can't decipher the word after scholar?
« Reply #5 on: Friday 05 July 19 01:05 BST (UK) »
Looking at the full image at Ancestry, the entry below Rebecca is Elizabeth Shepherd. I think the word that is hard to decipher belongs to her entry line: i.e. Elizabeth Shepherd, occupation Pauper, and when Ag Lab was crossed out, this word was written above.
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Re: Can't decipher the word after scholar?
« Reply #6 on: Friday 05 July 19 01:06 BST (UK) »
Further on there are some shoe makers and the maker part looks just the same.
Might it be shoemaker too? (And yes relating to the entry below)

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Re: Can't decipher the word after scholar?
« Reply #7 on: Friday 05 July 19 08:21 BST (UK) »
Further on there are some shoe makers and the maker part looks just the same.
Might it be shoemaker too? (And yes relating to the entry below)

Yes I wondered about shoemaker, having gone to look at the original to compare handwriting. He didn't write anything after scholar on any other entry so I also think it's on the wrong line. She was just a scholar.  What awful writing he had! You can only read some of the entries because you already know from the context what should be there!
Pearson (Bradwell Dby & Stocksbridge)
Donkersley
Crawshaw (Bradfield)
Evans (Bradwell Dby and Stocksbridge)
Crossley (Penistone)
Rogers (Nottinghamshire & Stocksbridge)
Poynton / Pointon (Derbyshire)
Day (Barnsley WRY and Iowa USA)
Scargill (Barnsley)

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Re: Can't decipher the word after scholar?
« Reply #8 on: Friday 05 July 19 14:26 BST (UK) »
Harness Maker?
Devir/Dever/Diver, O'Donnell, Sweeney, Doherty/Dogherty/Docherty( DON), Flanagan (Newry, DOW), Hennessy (Ballybunion, KER), Nally (Ballinacarrick,WEM) Meer (Paradise, Ballynagard, CLA) McKinnon, McLeod, Beaton, McLennan, (Skye, inc. Raasay) Christie (Dunblane & Glasgow) Wilson, Swan, Orr, (Airdrie)  Marshall (Burnley LAN/Stockport CHS) Burcham, Chamberlain, Crisp, Cone, Hewitt, Everard, Williamson, Jermy, Wade (NFK/SFK) Bell (CUL) Baglee & var. (DUR)