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Help with an unknown occupation please
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Kiwibird | Report | 4 Feb 2010 06:44 |
An ancester of mine is shown on the 1861 census as being a |
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InspectorGreenPen | Report | 4 Feb 2010 06:51 |
Have you found him on other censuses? Sometimes you can find a better description. |
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Kiwibird | Report | 4 Feb 2010 07:10 |
By the 1881 census he had retired. |
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Ozibird | Report | 4 Feb 2010 07:56 |
1861: |
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Kiwibird | Report | 4 Feb 2010 08:19 |
Many Thanks for your help Jonesey and ozi it looks very much like an enumerators fault as you stated |
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Ozibird | Report | 4 Feb 2010 21:30 |
It doesn't say Master anything. It is an ornate B. There is another B further down the page which is similar. I read it as Brazier & Ironmonger. The '&' runs into the 'I' of Ironmonger a bit, so it looks like a 'J'. |
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LadyKira | Report | 5 Feb 2010 10:53 |
Melvilles 1858 Directory of Kent. |
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LadyKira | Report | 5 Feb 2010 23:24 |
I am particularly interested as some of the Evitt family moved into Greenwich and knew my great grandmother's family. |