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Title: What is this occupation?
Post by: Emma Hughes on Friday 05 August 16 17:31 BST (UK)
Can anyone hazard a guess on what this occupation is? It is from a 25 year old married man in a rural area of wales in 1891. Others on the same page are farmers etc. Thanks!
Title: Re: What is this occupation?
Post by: Kay99 on Friday 05 August 16 17:41 BST (UK)
Is is possible to give us the person's details so we can compare the writing with the others on the page.  I wonder if it is Welsh??

Kay
Title: Re: What is this occupation?
Post by: Rhododendron on Friday 05 August 16 17:52 BST (UK)
Well it look like it is an Agricultural classification (the letters Ag by the side of it).  And the second word looks to me like "hind".  So something hind???
Title: Re: What is this occupation?
Post by: ScouseBoy on Friday 05 August 16 17:59 BST (UK)
Could be a farm servant?  could mean a farm servant?
Title: Re: What is this occupation?
Post by: purlin on Friday 05 August 16 18:18 BST (UK)
I think the second word is hired.  The first word possibly starts with an R an S or perhaps D  could it be Daily?  Daily hired Ag.
Title: Re: What is this occupation?
Post by: MaureeninNY on Friday 05 August 16 18:33 BST (UK)
No idea what it says but it's for David JONES RG12 4564/52/3.

Maureen
Title: Re: What is this occupation?
Post by: Rhododendron on Friday 05 August 16 19:20 BST (UK)
Purlin may be right.  That second word could very well be "hired" and not "hind" as I suggested.
Title: Re: What is this occupation?
Post by: josey on Friday 05 August 16 19:54 BST (UK)
In 1901 he is 'carter on a farm' - Ag/horse. RG13; Piece: 595; Folio: 12; Page: 16.

Where/what is he in 1881? What did his father do?

First letter looks like a 'B' to me, there is a Benjamin further up the page. Could second word be 'hand'?

Josey

ADDED: There's a William Jones 76 retired horse dealer next door in 1891. Could this be his father/grandfather? Might the second word be 'livery'?
Title: Re: What is this occupation?
Post by: Rosinish on Friday 05 August 16 20:27 BST (UK)
Hmmm...

Looks like it begins with "B" Bily/Bely but.....

May be a fancy "R" & abbreviated Rely".....

Regularly Hired Ag (Agricultural)  ???


Annie
Title: Re: What is this occupation?
Post by: Treetotal on Friday 05 August 16 21:15 BST (UK)
I read somewhere online that a Billy was a top hat worn by Ag Labs at hiring fairs...can't post the link from my iPad.
Carol
Title: Re: What is this occupation?
Post by: ScouseBoy on Friday 05 August 16 21:18 BST (UK)
Billy-cock   is the full name of the hat.
Title: Re: What is this occupation?
Post by: Gadget on Friday 05 August 16 21:21 BST (UK)
Just a thought ~

beili  is Welsh for Bailiff (I think)

Could if be written as it was pronounced (i.e. bely)


Gadget
Title: Re: What is this occupation?
Post by: Rena on Friday 05 August 16 23:20 BST (UK)
Usually all the words start with a capital letter and I'm wondering if the second word starts with a capital "W".

I don't recognise the first word and am wondering if the job title is something used in that locality/county and maybe the enumerator had a problem copying the description from the original form.

The only job I can think of that starts with a "B" is a bailiwick - maybe the landowner employed him to run poachers off his land his "bailiwick"?
Title: Re: What is this occupation?
Post by: matthewj64 on Friday 05 August 16 23:22 BST (UK)
The shape of the B looks like a P that's been changed to a B based on the shapes of Bs and Ps on the same page. The writer may have misheard an unfamiliar word and it may be misspelt.

M