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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: PeterHalliwell on Tuesday 02 March 10 16:12 GMT (UK)
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Please can anyone tell me what the Occupation of James Knight was in 1853. Thank you. Peter
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Tinderman?
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Fisherman?
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Not sure about Fisherman, Oldtimer, but thank you. Looks more like Tinderman (whatever that is!). Thanks Carol
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Tenderman - member of crew of fishing vessel?
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Not sure but isn't a Tinder box to do with making fire?
I'm sure someone clever (Like Stan) might come along and explain it to us.
I'll try and find the page with the occupations on.
Carol
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Thanks Carol. Snaphappy, Possible but all the rest of relations seem to be Agr Lab's. But all this gives me something to go on so I can find him.
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Tradesman perhaps?
Chris
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There was a James KNIGHT 55 Fisherman, Hambledon living in Portsea in 1851.
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On second thoughts Tinderman seems most likely though.
See there are some Gosport records where father's occupation is stated as tinderman, also timberman, and in the States both are surnames appear together in some regions.
Chris
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Hi, I know on the old steam trains there was a railway tender, (not sure what it was) but there was an actual Tenderman as an occupation. Perhaps there is a railway buff amongst us?
Myrrh
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Tinderman? I think shovels coal into the steam engine and makes tea for the train driver or shovels out the embers at the end of the day.
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I think perhaps it could be tenderman:
Wikipediai: A tender or coal-car is a special rail vehicle hauled by a steam locomotive containing the locomotive's fuel (wood, coal, or oil) and water. Steam locomotives consume large quantities of water compared to the quantity of fuel, so tenders are necessary to keep the locomotive running over long distances.
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COMPLETED, THANK YOU