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Title: Could someone please read this and tell me what it is?
Post by: br2az04 on Thursday 30 March 06 21:25 BST (UK)
i have been struggling to decipher it.
This is under the occupation on a birth certificate
Title: Re: Could someone please read this and tell me what it is?
Post by: MJP on Thursday 30 March 06 21:27 BST (UK)
Dairyman?
Title: Re: Could someone please read this and tell me what it is?
Post by: XPhile2868 on Thursday 30 March 06 21:34 BST (UK)
Is the first letter an S?
Title: Re: Could someone please read this and tell me what it is?
Post by: bekahsgran on Thursday 30 March 06 21:36 BST (UK)
Hi
Can we have more of the document to look at to compare different letters?
Anne
Title: Re: Could someone please read this and tell me what it is?
Post by: MaryA on Thursday 30 March 06 21:42 BST (UK)
I'd agree with Dairyman
Title: Re: Could someone please read this and tell me what it is?
Post by: br2az04 on Thursday 30 March 06 21:46 BST (UK)
I am so stupid on the census it says cowman so thanks guys i think Dairyman is a good bet.
Title: Re: Could someone please read this and tell me what it is?
Post by: XPhile2868 on Thursday 30 March 06 21:52 BST (UK)
The last bit looks more like maid to me
Title: Re: Could someone please read this and tell me what it is?
Post by: SJohn on Saturday 01 April 06 12:24 BST (UK)
Looks like 'Slaughterman'.
Title: Re: Could someone please read this and tell me what it is?
Post by: PrueM on Sunday 02 April 06 00:07 BST (UK)
Dairyman  :)

Prue
Title: Re: Could someone please read this and tell me what it is?
Post by: JAP on Sunday 02 April 06 01:50 BST (UK)
Definitely Dairyman.
And no - I didn't read any of the answers before coming to that conclusion  ;D

JAP
Title: Re: Could someone please read this and tell me what it is?
Post by: liverpool annie on Sunday 02 April 06 01:52 BST (UK)


I think Dairymaid !!  ::)
Title: Re: Could someone please read this and tell me what it is?
Post by: JAP on Sunday 02 April 06 04:12 BST (UK)
Well, given the OP's comment, that would make for an interesting piece of family history were a Cowman to have turned into a Dairymaid or vice versa  :o

JAP
Title: Re: Could someone please read this and tell me what it is?
Post by: br2az04 on Sunday 02 April 06 13:11 BST (UK)
What is a Cowman?
Title: Re: Could someone please read this and tell me what it is?
Post by: behindthefrogs on Sunday 02 April 06 18:06 BST (UK)
The definition from the old occupations dictionaries of a Cowman is:

A person who kept cows, usually for milk which he sold door to door.
Title: Re: Could someone please read this and tell me what it is?
Post by: CES on Sunday 02 April 06 19:20 BST (UK)
l think that l would safely read it as ?airymaid, so the nearest thing would be Dairymaid.  l would add that it should show as the occupation of a female.
Title: Re: Could someone please read this and tell me what it is?
Post by: PrueM on Sunday 02 April 06 21:55 BST (UK)
Hi all,
I don't think it's Dairymaid.  The letters at the end, if they were "id", would be very poorly formed in relation to the other letters. 
I've photoshopped in the missing bits of the letters so you can see how they form "Dairyman" - once in red to see my additions, and then in all black so you can read it better. 
 :)
Prue
Title: Re: Could someone please read this and tell me what it is?
Post by: Sherwood on Sunday 09 April 06 21:25 BST (UK)
I concur with opinion that it says Dairyman.  The flowery style of the initial 'D' and the way the 'y' flows to the 'm' is consistent with the curly end to the 'n'.

I don't think it's Dairymaid because if it were, there ought to be an obvious dot over the second 'i' and also the 'i' and 'd' wouldn't be so small.

Sherwood.