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Family History Beginners Board / Re: What is a "deal"?
« on: Today at 03:27 »
deal noun (WOOD)

[ U ]
the pale, soft wood of a pine or fir tree, used especially for making furniture:

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The Common Room / Re: What is a W. A. S. Inspection (Eng)? (1939 REGISTER)
« on: Today at 00:44 »
Maybe this publication has the answer?

January 24 2025
Occupational Titles in Census Data: England and Wales
Matteo Calabrese,  Bas van Leeuwen
Author and Article Information
The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (2024) 55 (2): 243–267.
https://doi.org/10.1162/jinh_a_02039

Abstract
Historical census data are a pivotal source for studying occupational dynamics, yet analyzing them is often challenging due to the large number of unique occupations and the need to standardize unspecific titles. A new methodology for attributing occupational titles to industrial sectors, demonstrated with the 1939 National Register for England and Wales (a dataset of approximately 42 million entries), produces findings that align with the trends across the agriculture and mining, secondary, and tertiary sectors identified in previous studies. At the subsector level, however, this procedure revises the shares for agricultural workers and individuals employed across the tertiary subsectors. At the district level, the sectoral allocation process results in a redistribution of workers into certain secondary subsectors driven by more precise sectoral estimations for previously underrepresented groups and the empirical allocation of generic laborers.

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The Common Room / Re: What is a W. A. S. Inspection (Eng)? (1939 REGISTER)
« on: Yesterday at 15:36 »
When I search for occupation "W. S. Inspection" in Bradford in the 1939 Register on Ancestry another chap comes up - John S Brown, DOB 1917 - can someone with a subscription have a look?

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The Common Room / Re: What is a W. A. S. Inspection (Eng)? (1939 REGISTER)
« on: Yesterday at 15:17 »
So... it's actually W. A. S Inspection (ENG) as you had posted before, JenB ;D

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The Common Room / Re: Mysterious Occupation for an Interesting Chap
« on: Yesterday at 03:16 »
The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1883 - 1930)  Wed 5 Apr 1911
 Page 3
 Advertising


IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW SOUTH WALES.
— PROBATE JURISDICTION.— In the Will of
GEORGE HORATIO VINCENT PEARSON late of Oatley-
road Paddington near Sydney in the State of New
South Wales Retired Engineer deceased., APPLICATION
will be made after fourteen days from the publication
hereof that Probate of the last Will of the above-
named deceased may be granted to ALBERT EDWARD
TWIGG of Paddington Furniture Warehouseman and
JOSEPHINE MARY CRICK (formerly Josephine Mary
Pearson) the wife of Ernest Clifton Crick of North Syd
ney Artist the Executor and Executrix named in the
said Will and all Notices may be served at the Office
of the undersigned. C. J. ELLIS (late Ellis and But-
ton) Proctor 84 Elizabeth-street Sydney,

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/239088312?searchTerm=%22josephine%20pearson%22#


George Horatio hanged himself  :(

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The Common Room / Re: Mysterious Occupation for an Interesting Chap
« on: Monday 04 August 25 20:00 BST (UK)  »
Where have you found this? What happened to Lily?

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The Common Room / Re: Mysterious Occupation for an Interesting Chap
« on: Monday 04 August 25 14:58 BST (UK)  »
He was definitely in Sydney around the time of his second marriage.

"Sydney Enlargement Co., 14 Castlereagh-st., photographers - Business commenced 17.10.10 - Propr.: Ernest Clifton Crick. Registered 17.10.10. No. 21930."

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-788335674/view?sectionId=nla.obj-796600675&searchTerm=%22ernest+clifton+crick%22&partId=nla.obj-788349254#page/n17/mode/1up/search/%22ernest+clifton+crick%22


And he also gave the alias of "George Crick, a Melbourne press reporter", when he was arrested in Victoria.

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/149116998?searchTerm=%22george%20hamilton%22#

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The Common Room / Re: Mysterious Occupation for an Interesting Chap
« on: Monday 04 August 25 11:58 BST (UK)  »
Regarding his occupation as Head of the Intelligence Department... he left his job in 1930 in Belgium and returned to Paris. He was fluent in French, English and German, he had connections in France, Belgium, Switzerland and England and he worked for a major American company. Maybe he was recruited by the government during WW2?

And Ford had a controversial role in WW2

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-dec-07-fi-12269-story.html

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Northumberland / Re: Trying to trace a murder....
« on: Monday 04 August 25 01:32 BST (UK)  »
Many articles

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1970-01-01/1970-12-31?basicsearch=%22kadansky%22&phrasesearch=kadansky&retrievecountrycounts=false

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