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Offline Ian Thwaites

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Help with deciphering an occupation
« on: Friday 03 May 24 03:21 BST (UK) »
I have attached 2 snippets from 2 sources showing the same information. One is from the Manchester, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1930 (Cathedral) records, and the other is from the Lancashire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1936 records.
We can make out an occupation for Bryan Rooney that looks like ??ustian Cutter in both sources.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Ian and Yvonne
Thwaites (Durham) – Ininns (Durham) – Innings (Hampshire) – Rooney (Durham, Ireland) – Hutchinson (Durham) – Chambers (Durham) – Hopper (Durham) – Welsh (Durham, Ireland) – Potts (Durham) – Gray (Durham) – Brodrick (Durham) – Cook (Northumberland) – Hoggin (Durham, Ireland) – Gibbin (Durham, Ireland) – Henderson (Durham) – Scoon (Durham, Roxburghshire)

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Re: Help with deciphering an occupation
« Reply #1 on: Friday 03 May 24 03:38 BST (UK) »
Fustian cutter
BRENNANx2 Davidstown/Taghmon,Ballybrennan; COOPER St.Helens;CREAN Raheennaskeagh/Ballywalter;COSGRAVE Castlebridge?;CULLEN Lady's Island;CULLETON Forth Commons;CURRAN Hillbrook, Wic;DOYLE Clonee/Tombrack;FOX Knockbrandon; FURLONG Moortown;HAYESx2 Walsheslough/Wex;McGILL Litter;MORRIS Forth Commons;PIERCE Ladys Island;POTTS Bennettstown;REDMOND Gerry; ROCHEx2 Wex; ROCHFORD Ballysampson/Ballyhit;SHERIDAN Moneydurtlow; SINNOTT Wex;SMYTH Gerry/Oulart;WALSH Kilrane/Wex; WHITE Tagoat area

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Re: Help with deciphering an occupation
« Reply #2 on: Friday 03 May 24 04:18 BST (UK) »
Milligan - Jardine – Glencross – Dinwoodie - Brown: (Dumfriesshire & Kirkcudbrightshire)
Clark – Faulds – Cuthbertson – Bryson – Wilson: (Ayrshire & Renfrewshire)
Neale – Cater – Kinder - Harrison: (Warwickshire & Queensland)
Roberts - Spry: (Cornwall, Middlesex & Queensland)
Munster: (Schleswig-Holstein & Queensland) and Plate: (Braunschweig, Neubruck & Queensland & New York)

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Re: Help with deciphering an occupation
« Reply #3 on: Friday 03 May 24 04:24 BST (UK) »
I agree too, Fustian Cutter.  :D

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Re: Help with deciphering an occupation
« Reply #4 on: Friday 03 May 24 07:15 BST (UK) »
I have lots of ancestors in Macclesfield,who were Fustian Cutters, a sort of very thick velvet.
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Re: Help with deciphering an occupation
« Reply #5 on: Friday 03 May 24 10:09 BST (UK) »
As a teenager, I first came across a reference to Fustian in the description of Michael Henchard at the start of "The Mayor of Casterbridge" , as he is wearing a "Fustian waistcoat with white horn buttons and breeches of the same". The notes to the chapter add that Fustian was a diagonally ribbed (twilled) cotton material usually dark in colour and made for hard wear.
I was interested to read in Neale1961 's post the article about its association with radicals, having Chartists in the family I can now picture them in their Fustian suits!
Bulman, DUR
Butterfield DUR & N. YKS,
Earnshaw DUR
Hopps DUR & N. YKS
Howe, Richardson,Thompson all DUR

William Thompson violin maker Bishop Auckland
William Thompson jun. Violin maker Leeds

Richardson in Bermondsey/East Ham, descendants of William Richardson b. 1820 Bishop Auckland

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Re: Help with deciphering an occupation
« Reply #6 on: Friday 03 May 24 15:25 BST (UK) »
Thanks to all the replies, great work as always.
Thwaites (Durham) – Ininns (Durham) – Innings (Hampshire) – Rooney (Durham, Ireland) – Hutchinson (Durham) – Chambers (Durham) – Hopper (Durham) – Welsh (Durham, Ireland) – Potts (Durham) – Gray (Durham) – Brodrick (Durham) – Cook (Northumberland) – Hoggin (Durham, Ireland) – Gibbin (Durham, Ireland) – Henderson (Durham) – Scoon (Durham, Roxburghshire)
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