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Occupation please
« on: Thursday 13 March 25 19:07 GMT (UK) »
Could someone decipher the occupation please.  Looks like flesher.  Thanks.

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Re: Occupation please
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 13 March 25 19:10 GMT (UK) »
flesher (a butcher)
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Re: Occupation please
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 13 March 25 19:12 GMT (UK) »
Thank you.  Didn't think of that.

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Re: Occupation please
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 13 March 25 19:25 GMT (UK) »
flesher (a butcher)

I used to live in Cullen, Banffshire over 40 years ago. There was a Flesher’s shop, and the proprietor was insistent he was not a butcher who butchered animals but a flesher who sold the meat!
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Re: Occupation please
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 13 March 25 19:32 GMT (UK) »
I knew there was a distinction, but I couldn’t remember what it was. The first time that I saw flesher on a shop was in Fort William: perhaps it is primarily a Scots distinction? The OP is in Partick I believe?
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« Reply #5 on: Thursday 13 March 25 19:39 GMT (UK) »
British Newspaper Archive search for 'flesher':

England 19,593
Ireland 11,327
Scotland 106, 378
Wales 363


Shorter Oxford Dictionary: flesher, noun (chiefly Scot.) a butcher
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Re: Occupation please
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 13 March 25 21:56 GMT (UK) »
Thanks to both of you.  Alan, no, I am Scottish but have been living in England for yrs, but, yes, my maternal grandparents were from Partick, like several generations before them.  I can't recall ever having seen a flesher.  Less likely to do so now, of course, with fewer butcher shops around.  Will look out for them when visiting family in Fort William  :).  Calleva, that's interesting, thanks.