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Title: Birth Record
Post by: wynnepa on Thursday 09 January 14 23:06 GMT (UK)

Need help with the second entry of profession. Clearly the first one is shoemaker but i can't quite make out the second one.....looks like Hurd? Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Peter

Title: Re: Birth Record
Post by: Bookbox on Thursday 09 January 14 23:25 GMT (UK)

Is it in a Northern county? If so, perhaps it's Hind -- a farm labourer?

Title: Re: Birth Record
Post by: wynnepa on Thursday 09 January 14 23:32 GMT (UK)

This is from County Sligo in the Tobercurry/Coolaney area. Previous records show his profession as Servant and Labourer.....which I'm thinking he was a farm labourer so Hind might be the right profession.
As an addendum for the other entries on this page the transcriber uses the term Labourer and Farm Labourer for other entries.

Here is another screen shot showing the handwriting to the left. The first two letters of the profession look like He. So is Herd a profession?

Title: Re: Birth Record
Post by: GR2 on Friday 10 January 14 07:42 GMT (UK)

Herd

Title: Re: Birth Record
Post by: aghadowey on Friday 10 January 14 08:48 GMT (UK)

I think it's 'Hurd' [herd]- 'hind' would have been unlikely to have been used in Ireland.

Added- agree with next reply- Herd rather than Hurd

Title: Re: Birth Record
Post by: alpinecottage on Friday 10 January 14 08:56 GMT (UK)

I think it's "Herd", based on the first two letters of "Henry".  As in shepherd, goat herd  etc.  Perhaps he took stock to market or drove them elsewhere in Ireland.

Title: Re: Birth Record
Post by: wynnepa on Friday 10 January 14 12:41 GMT (UK)

Thank you. Herd [Shepherd] is what I was tending towards.