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Title: Help Reading an Occupation
Post by: salmynka on Sunday 15 September 13 18:10 BST (UK)
can anyone work out what this says?  Is it Corporation something?
Title: Re: Help Reading an Occupation
Post by: Pels. on Sunday 15 September 13 18:14 BST (UK)


Could the second word be Drainer ?

Pels.
Title: Re: Help Reading an Occupation
Post by: trelawn1984 on Sunday 15 September 13 18:18 BST (UK)
Looks like Corporation to me but I can't make out the second word.

Amy
Title: Re: Help Reading an Occupation
Post by: shanghaipanda on Sunday 15 September 13 18:18 BST (UK)
First word could be Corporation ...........
Title: Re: Help Reading an Occupation
Post by: Pels. on Sunday 15 September 13 18:20 BST (UK)


Quote from: Pels. on Sunday 15 September 13 18:14 BST (UK)

Could the second word be Drainer ?

Pels.

I should have said I agree the first word is Corporation.

Sorry, salmynka !  :) :)
Title: Re: Help Reading an Occupation
Post by: salmynka on Sunday 15 September 13 18:42 BST (UK)
lol well Corporation seems right but I have no idea what a corporation drainer would be or do??  ;D

His daughter claimed he work for or as a solicitor type of thing (but that might just be flights of fancy!!)
Title: Re: Help Reading an Occupation
Post by: Treetotal on Sunday 15 September 13 18:52 BST (UK)
Dressmaker?
Carol
Title: Re: Help Reading an Occupation
Post by: Flattybasher9 on Sunday 15 September 13 19:13 BST (UK)
Removing the cross lines leaves this

Regards

Malky
Title: Re: Help Reading an Occupation
Post by: salmynka on Sunday 15 September 13 19:16 BST (UK)
Corporation Drummer? Ie salesman?? ''Drummer    Traveling salesman''
Title: Re: Help Reading an Occupation
Post by: Treetotal on Sunday 15 September 13 19:31 BST (UK)
I think Pel's answer has been confirmed by Malky..."Corporation Drainer"....looking at other census returns may confirm it.

Carol
Title: Re: Help Reading an Occupation
Post by: Pels. on Sunday 15 September 13 19:32 BST (UK)



Malky's made a good job of taking the lines away !  :)

I would have thought a Corporation Drainer had something to do with Corporation Drainage ?

Do you have his occupation in any other census years?

 :-\

Pels.

Quote from: Treetotal on Sunday 15 September 13 19:31 BST (UK)
I thin Pel's answer has been confirmed by Malky..."Corporation Drainer"....looking at other census returns may confirm it.

Carol

Added : Snap Carol !  :)
Title: Re: Help Reading an Occupation
Post by: osprey on Sunday 15 September 13 19:33 BST (UK)
I'd agree with corporation drainer as well.


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Title: Re: Help Reading an Occupation
Post by: stanmapstone on Sunday 15 September 13 19:51 BST (UK)
Drainman (local authority); removes silt from trap of surface water drain with long handled scoop; keps drains, gratings, clear of leaves etc. "A Dictionary of Occupational Terms"

Stan
Title: Re: Help Reading an Occupation
Post by: salmynka on Sunday 15 September 13 20:38 BST (UK)
Fantastic thank you all! :D I was going boss eyed lol

I havent found him earlier yet but hopefully I will soon and confirm Corporation Drainer
Title: Re: Help Reading an Occupation
Post by: J.A.M. on Sunday 15 September 13 21:01 BST (UK)
I'm probably wrong but I'm going against the consensus & say the word is 'trainer' not Drainer. A 'D' would logically start from the top & be a downward stroke then back up & down to make the loop.
Are there any other words with a lower case 't' or upper case 'D' on the cert?
Working in a law office he might have been a trainer for clerks etc.
Title: Re: Help Reading an Occupation
Post by: stanmapstone on Sunday 15 September 13 22:04 BST (UK)
From the 1881 Census
Title: Re: Help Reading an Occupation
Post by: J.A.M. on Monday 16 September 13 00:01 BST (UK)
I said I was probably wrong & I was.