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The Common Room / Re: What occupation
« on: Thursday 03 May 12 08:55 BST (UK)  »
Hi Grantley

The position of the individuals in their various family groups doesn't really support the 'With Means' hypothesis in my case - I suspect it has some specific job-related meaning, but I can't think what!  However I am very interested to have discovered that mine is not a unique example which might otherwise have suggested a quirk of the particular enumerator.

Thanks very much for looking at it anyway, and if I do find any more answers I will post them here.

Ron

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The Common Room / Re: What occupation
« on: Wednesday 02 May 12 11:43 BST (UK)  »
Hi Grantley

Here is a page with two examples, one male and one female.  By way of background, it is a rural village whose main work was farming at this time as well as a declining textile (wool) industry.  There were five people altogether with this abbreviation against their names, three male and two female, with ages ranging from 25 to 50.  Unfortunately, none of them appeared in the 1851 census, so it is not possible to get more information on their occupations from that source.  Any clues very welcome!

Ron


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The Common Room / Re: What occupation
« on: Wednesday 02 May 12 11:11 BST (UK)  »
Hi there

I also have an 1841 census form with a few people giving their occupations as 'W M'.  They are a mixture of men and women, and none of the suggested answers so far given seems likely.  Any more suggestions would be welcome!

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Gloucestershire Resources / Link: Sheepscombe Census 1841 to 1911 and Parish Records
« on: Wednesday 13 April 11 14:46 BST (UK)  »
If you have ancestors from the Gloucestershire village of Sheepscombe, you can find an alphabetical index of every resident in the eight censuses from 1841 - 1911 by following this link: http://www.sheepscombehistory.org.uk/genealogy.html.   There are also downloadable Excel spreadsheets with transcriptions of each of the censuses as well as the Parish Registers from 1823 onwards. 
The Sheepscombe History Society would be very interested to hear from any descendants of the people listed.

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World War One / Re: Can anyone please help with these medal cards?
« on: Monday 13 September 10 12:50 BST (UK)  »
You may be interested to know that Norman Sollars is one of the me featured in Sheepscombe History Society's booklet on the Sheepscombe War Memorial - see http://www.sheepscombehistory.org.uk/warmemorialbook.html.  There is also some genealogical information elsewhere on the site about people who lived in the village.

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Gloucestershire / Re: John ABELL.Winstone. Gloucs.
« on: Monday 13 September 10 10:56 BST (UK)  »
Just to say that if you haven't seen them already you can find Sheepscombe census and parish register extracts on this website: http://www.sheepscombehistory.org.uk/genealogy.html

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Argyllshire / Re: Crawford from Sherdrim
« on: Monday 13 September 10 10:45 BST (UK)  »
I should also have added that I have Christina McNicoll's marriage certificate - the wedding took place in Partick on 31 January 1879, when her age is given as 24, and one of the witnesses is named as Maggie Crawford.  Her parents are named as Archibald McNicoll and Isabella McNicoll, maiden surname Crawford.

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Argyllshire / Re: Crawford from Sherdrim
« on: Monday 13 September 10 09:11 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for your replies.  I agree it is always possible that we are talking about different families with the same names, but here are a few other factors that may help confirm or deny the connection.  Most of it comes from a family tree that my grandfather prepared a long time ago (he died in 1958).
Alexander McTavish, my great grandfather who married Christina McNicoll, was probably born in Glassary (most of the censuses say this, although one says Castleron), as was his father Duncan McTavish.  Alexander later lived in Glasgow, where he was a seaman, the master of one of the Clyde Trustee's sludge boats.  The censuses generally show Christina as having been born around 1855, and the 1891 census shows that her sister Margaret was in the house at that time.  (Of course, Margaret is a common name as well, but it is some form of corroboration.)
Christina's parents were Archibald McNicoll and Isabel(la) Crawford.  In fact, Archibald's mother was another Crawford - Christina Crawford, who had married an Alexander McNicoll.  Archibald was also the master of a boat - on the night of the 1881 census he is shown as being on board the "Isabella & Jean" at Port Dundas,  Christina herself appears to have been born in Minard, a little further up Loch Fyne.
Hope this helps!

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Argyllshire / Re: Crawford from Sherdrim
« on: Friday 10 September 10 12:44 BST (UK)  »
I am also descended from Donald and Mary Crawford through their daughter Isabel.  However, my great-grandmother Christina McNicoll (the spelling of the surname varies a lot) was also one of Isabel's daughters and was born around 1852-55, although she is not included in your list.  She married Alexander McTavish, and their daughter, Isabella Crawford McTavish was my maternal grandmother, born around 1882.  Christina's sister Margaret (my grandmother's aunt) is listed as living with the McTavish family in Glasgow in the 1891 census.

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