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Soldier A Bovril Coy
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Mandy | Report | 7 Aug 2009 23:27 |
Thanks everyone |
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MargaretM | Report | 7 Aug 2009 23:16 |
Looking at the original of the census I'm sure it says solderer at Bovril Company. |
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Battenburg | Report | 7 Aug 2009 23:14 |
British Rations `1880-1918. |
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Click ADD REPLY button - not this link! | Report | 7 Aug 2009 23:13 |
It says "solderer - at Bovril Company" and Tin Cans is written above. |
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GlitterBaby | Report | 7 Aug 2009 23:03 |
Got to agree with SHRat description |
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Mandy | Report | 7 Aug 2009 22:53 |
Her name is Clara Howard YOB 1882. Shes living in Walthamstow, |
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AllanC | Report | 7 Aug 2009 08:56 |
I think you could be right about the Bovril Company; they were located in London at the time. Thinking about the confusion between S and L in old writing, if the Bovril Co had their own laundry for workers' overalls could that first word be "Laundress"? |
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mgnv | Report | 7 Aug 2009 01:21 |
If you gave enough info such that anyone could find this census page, I'm sure folk here would take a look at the original and see what they thought it said. |
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Mandy | Report | 6 Aug 2009 22:17 |
Hi just found the transcript and they lived in Walthamstow and the end reads ....at Bovril coy, but cant make out the first word it looks like soldier but obviously isn't. Thank you for making me rethink! I would still have been scratching my head |
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AllanC | Report | 6 Aug 2009 22:06 |
Have you got the census original or the transcript? "Coy" was a common abbreviation for "company", particularly in a military rather than a civilian context. If you've only got a transcript it could be that the transcriber couldn't read the first word but thought it looked like "soldier", particularly with the "coy" at the end. |
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Mandy | Report | 6 Aug 2009 21:53 |
Can anybody please tell me what they think this means its on the 1901 census as a 19yr old girls occupation, she is single and living at home. I've googled it and got the history of Bovril! |