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Offline Yvonne Donnellon

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Occupation ?
« on: Thursday 06 January 22 09:21 GMT (UK) »
Hi

Can anyone tell me what the word after scale is?  This lady's father was a fish hawker so is it something to do with removing scales?

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Re: Occupation ?
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 06 January 22 09:22 GMT (UK) »
repairer?
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« Reply #2 on: Thursday 06 January 22 09:29 GMT (UK) »
I thought Repairer but not sure about the p. I can't think of anything else that looks like that though.
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« Reply #3 on: Thursday 06 January 22 09:55 GMT (UK) »
Maybe it is supposed to read Scale Preparer - preparation of fish.


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« Reply #4 on: Thursday 06 January 22 09:56 GMT (UK) »
I thought Repairer but not sure about the p. I can't think of anything else that looks like that though.

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« Reply #5 on: Thursday 06 January 22 14:03 GMT (UK) »
I think it's Scale(s?) Repairer, as in weighing scales.

You haven't said which census this is from, but I see the enumerator has given it the occupational code 260, which happens to be the one used in 1921 for repairers of weighing scales:

http://doot.spub.co.uk/code.php?value=260
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« Reply #6 on: Thursday 06 January 22 15:48 GMT (UK) »
I think it's Scale(s?) Repairer, as in weighing scales.

You haven't said which census this is from, but I see the enumerator has given it the occupational code 260, which happens to be the one used in 1921 for repairers of weighing scales:

http://doot.spub.co.uk/code.php?value=260

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