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Offline dusty2

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What occupation is this?
« on: Monday 27 July 20 18:00 BST (UK) »
I am hoping that someone can identify this occupation on a marriage certificate. It clearly starts Ga...
For the life of me I can't think what it might be. Any ideas, please?

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Re: What occupation is this?
« Reply #1 on: Monday 27 July 20 18:02 BST (UK) »
Galvanizer?
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bedfordshire - farr, carver,handley, godfrey, newell, bird, emmerton, underwood,ancell
buckinghamshire- pain
cambridgeshire- bird, carver
hertfordshire- conisbee, bean, saunders, quick,godfrey
derbyshire- allsop, noon
devon - griffin, love, rapsey
dorset- rendall, gale
somerset- rendall, churchill
surrey/middlesex - douglas, conisbee, childs, lyon groombridge

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Re: What occupation is this?
« Reply #2 on: Monday 27 July 20 18:03 BST (UK) »
Galvanizer
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 occupation is this?
« Reply #3 on: Monday 27 July 20 18:25 BST (UK) »
Yes! Thanks very much