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Some Special Interests => Occupation Interests => Topic started by: Jenjnz on Thursday 22 January 09 01:52 GMT (UK)

Title: Glass Butler
Post by: Jenjnz on Thursday 22 January 09 01:52 GMT (UK)

I found this given as an occupation in the 1881 census.

Any ideas as to what it eant??

Jennie

Title: Re: Glass Butler
Post by: suzard on Thursday 22 January 09 02:15 GMT (UK)

could you give  age and po.b  of the person in census so we can look at the image and see if it has been transcribed correctly??

Suz

Title: Re: Glass Butler
Post by: Jenjnz on Thursday 22 January 09 03:36 GMT (UK)

James H PERRY aged 15 b. abt 1866  place of birth "Bristol City and County" and living in Bristol
I've looked a the original and it's pretty clear. His brother Albert became a Glass cutter but don't know if the two jobs are connected.

Jennie

Title: Re: Glass Butler
Post by: stanmapstone on Thursday 22 January 09 09:57 GMT (UK)

As he could not be a Butler in the accepted sense, being only 15, perhaps it is a term used in the local glass making industry for some occupation in the making of glass. Just to point out that he is the only one in the South West of England in the 1881 Census.

Stan

Title: Re: Glass Butler
Post by: stanmapstone on Thursday 22 January 09 10:26 GMT (UK)

I would think that the enumerator has copied it incorrectly from the Householder's Schedule. I wonder if it could be Glass Beveller?

Stan

Title: Re: Glass Butler
Post by: JennieJ on Friday 23 January 09 22:49 GMT (UK)

I think you could be right Stan in thinking it is a job within the glass industry. When I said that Albert became a glass cutter I should perhaps have explained that he did not cut domestic glass but brilliant glass. It was an art form rather than just windows and such.
See this website for the type of work he did    http://www.buildingconservation.com/articles/glass98/glass98.htm

Jennie

Title: Re: Glass Butler
Post by: poolqwizrd on Wednesday 18 February 09 13:32 GMT (UK)

or glass bottler