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Title: Decipher a word, please.
Post by: ScottFive on Friday 17 December 10 03:15 GMT (UK)

Cannot read a word that appears several times on a 1871 cencus: looks like "Emeral(d)" dealer?

Thanks,

Scott.

Title: Re: Decipher a word, please.
Post by: suzyvan on Friday 17 December 10 03:48 GMT (UK)

General Servant

Title: Re: Decipher a word, please.
Post by: ScottFive on Friday 17 December 10 04:01 GMT (UK)

Thanks for that - what threw me was on the 4th and 6th last entries the words look like "dealer" (does not look like "domestic" even - maybe just poor handwriting?). Come to think of it maybe they were just 'General Dealers' of goods ?

Scott.

Title: Re: Decipher a word, please.
Post by: janinez on Friday 17 December 10 05:11 GMT (UK)

I agree, I read it as general dealer too.... :)

Title: Re: Decipher a word, please.
Post by: PrueM on Friday 17 December 10 07:35 GMT (UK)

There's a "General Servant" at the top of that clip, and then "General dealers" further on :)

Cheers
Prue

Title: Re: Decipher a word, please.
Post by: ScottFive on Friday 17 December 10 07:53 GMT (UK)

Thanks Janinez and PrueM ...

...now I know what my (x3) Grandmother was doing (Sussanah Alden of Bristol) - interesting; throughout the cencuses she is doing different things; anything to make ends meet in those days, I guess.

Scott :)