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I am looking for Pepper Family and Mayer Family from turn of eighteenth century upto 1850's.  I would be grateful for any information anybody has.

REgards
CAROLE

Hi, all my Peppers are in Keele at that time, moved to Newcastle-u-Lyme about 1850's 

It may be a bit early but there is one Ephraim H. Jones in 1901 census of Buckley. He's 19 yrs old/unmarried & living on the High Street, as his Dad, John Jones is a Grocer, Ephraim himself is down as a Coal Miner (hewer) which doesn't exactely tie in with him being a builder 

However, according to FreeBmd a Ephraim Hopwood Jones was born Q1 1882 Flintshire & married Q4 1907 in Hawarden, on the same entry (11b-439) is an Annie Lamb.

Not saying this is the guy you're looking for but it's worth checking out. I can get you a screenshot of the census if you'd like 

Actually I've just done a freeBMD search for their marriage:

An Ann Beard appears on the entry for Q4 1843 but she's in Devon (St Thomas district) & there's no Richard Cooper for the same place/qtr.

The best place to start might be to check you have the right marriage/couple...

They are probably spambots - an automated program trawling the web looking for random forums to join so they can leave an url to a dodgy site, usually gambling or p*rn or similar. Funnily enough they don't always leave an url (I have no idea why)
I think the idea is (in part) search robots will find the web link on the forum and of course, the more times a site is linked to, the higher it will be in the search engine rankings.

We run a small phpBB forum and our policy is - if someone joins and doesn't post within 24-48 hours they are deleted and if they have a dodgy url, then they are deleted straight away, no argument.

There is a quick mod (for the phpBB forums at least) that the admin can do to stop the spambots registering, but it doesn't stop real people registering, we did it and it has worked for us, also a lot of the newer forum versions are implementing visual confirmation for new registrations (type in the characters you see displayed to confirm you are a real person) which also works.

Also, it's worth bearing in mind that some people join up expecting that registered members get some sort of extra content that is hidden to guests. When they don't find what they are looking for, they walk away. 

Whatever the reasons, new members that don't add to the discussions are a waste of space 

Hi,

Came across this occupation on 1861 census - Beer House Keeper & what looks like Outfilter or Outfitter...and was left wondering what an Outfilter/Outfitter did.

Have found a few posts on here about Beer House keepers which made for interesting reading, but can't find any like Outfilter/Outfitter on the few occupations websites I found. I thought of Outfitter as maybe someone like a tailor... but on the 1851 census the same guy gives his occupation as 'Publican & Coal Miner'

Is there anyone out there who has spotted a profession like this before?

Thanks for any help you can offer 

Lucky