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Title: Tobacco Operative ????? - 1939 Register entry
Post by: fixit9660 on Thursday 30 June 22 07:49 BST (UK)
Could someone please help me with the Personal Occupation entry in a 1939 Register?
The top line for Henry Draiseys Occupation is "Tobacco Operative ?????". I can't make out the last word. There is a strip of tape running the whole length of the page obscuring the last half of all the words.
Title: Re: Tobacco Operative ????? - 1939 Register entry
Post by: Rosinish on Thursday 30 June 22 07:57 BST (UK)
Could it be Personnel?

Annie
Title: Re: Tobacco Operative ????? - 1939 Register entry
Post by: fixit9660 on Thursday 30 June 22 08:03 BST (UK)
Hi Annie. Thanks for the prompt response. The person completing the Register has been pretty consistent and specific with dotting his i's, and Full Stops. I wondered if it ended "...ied"? I still can't understand the word if it does.
Andrew.
Title: Re: Tobacco Operative ????? - 1939 Register entry
Post by: bbart on Thursday 30 June 22 08:04 BST (UK)
Pensioned? 
Title: Re: Tobacco Operative ????? - 1939 Register entry
Post by: mckha489 on Thursday 30 June 22 08:05 BST (UK)
I was just about to suggest  Pensioned.
Title: Re: Tobacco Operative ????? - 1939 Register entry
Post by: fixit9660 on Thursday 30 June 22 08:13 BST (UK)
AH! Pensioned. Of course. Why didn't I think of that? He was 83 years old at that point. Barring any better suggestions I think I'll go for Pensioned.
Thank you all for your prompt help!!
Title: Re: Tobacco Operative ????? - 1939 Register entry
Post by: Karen McDonald on Thursday 30 June 22 09:11 BST (UK)
Without looking at the other answers, I (also) saw "pensioned".
Title: Re: Tobacco Operative ????? - 1939 Register entry
Post by: fixit9660 on Thursday 30 June 22 09:36 BST (UK)
Pensioned it is then! :-)
Thank you all very much!!!
Title: Re: Tobacco Operative ????? - 1939 Register entry
Post by: Karen McDonald on Thursday 30 June 22 10:30 BST (UK)
To split hairs on this one ;D, I think it actually says Tobaca, not Tobacco. Same thing, at the end of the day... :)

And for no reason other than quenching my curiosity  ::), what is the middle word in the "Unpaid ... Duties" entries? (Nothing to do with your Henry, I know, but I am curious.  :) )
Title: Re: Tobacco Operative ????? - 1939 Register entry
Post by: Andy J2022 on Thursday 30 June 22 11:27 BST (UK)
Quote from: Karen McDonald on Thursday 30 June 22 10:30 BST (UK)
To split hairs on this one ;D, I think it actually says Tobaca, not Tobacco. Same thing, at the end of the day... :)

And for no reason other than quenching my curiosity  ::), what is the middle word in the "Unpaid ... Duties" entries? (Nothing to do with your Henry, I know, but I am curious.  :) )
I disagree with Tobaca - I think the final c and the o are just badly formed, making the o look like the a in Unpaid.
As for the Unpaid .. Duties, it's dom short for domestic. Usually entered as UDD per the instructions to the enumerators.
Title: Re: Tobacco Operative ????? - 1939 Register entry
Post by: heywood on Thursday 30 June 22 11:29 BST (UK)
Repeated information  ;)
Title: Re: Tobacco Operative ????? - 1939 Register entry
Post by: Karen McDonald on Thursday 30 June 22 12:15 BST (UK)
Quote from: Andy J2022 on Thursday 30 June 22 11:27 BST (UK)
As for the Unpaid .. Duties, it's dom short for domestic. Usually entered as UDD per the instructions to the enumerators.

Many thanks!  :)
Title: Re: Tobacco Operative ????? - 1939 Register entry
Post by: softly softly on Thursday 30 June 22 13:01 BST (UK)
Henry in 1911 census was a Tobacco Cutter.

John
Title: Re: Tobacco Operative ????? - 1939 Register entry
Post by: carol8353 on Thursday 30 June 22 15:36 BST (UK)
Quote from: johnhood on Thursday 30 June 22 13:01 BST (UK)
Henry in 1911 census was a Tobacco Cutter.

John

And in 1901 too  ;D
Title: Re: Tobacco Operative ????? - 1939 Register entry
Post by: fixit9660 on Friday 01 July 22 07:32 BST (UK)
Yep, got both of those Censuses. :-)