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Offline ggperry

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Can Anyone Read These Occupations?
« on: Wednesday 19 December 07 13:21 GMT (UK) »
Can Anyone Read These Occupations?

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Re: Can Anyone Read These Occupations?
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 19 December 07 13:40 GMT (UK) »
Supervisor and the first one looks like
Car Tracer Coal Co  :-\

Was it a mining area?  A Car Tracer could be someone who hitched wagons to the ponies.
GREENWELL - Middlesbrough
TURNBULL - Houghton le Spring, Coxhoe, Spennymoor
DEVEY - Pentonville, Stockton, M'bro
MOHAN/HUN - Stockton on Tees
SCRAFTON - Darlington
BROADBENT - Saddleworth, Ashton Under Lyne
HEMSWELL - Grantham, M'bro
SIMPKINS - M'bro
SIMPKIN - Little Wratting, Suffolk
MALLALIEU - Saddleworth, Ashton U L
GOODWIN - Macclesfield Forest
SUTCLIFFE - Heptonstall, Ashton U L
PLIMMER - Pontesbury, Ashton U L
CAMBRIDGE - Goulborne, Ashton U L
SIDDALL - Ashton U L

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Re: Can Anyone Read These Occupations?
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 19 December 07 13:44 GMT (UK) »
Is this a US census?

Googling car tracer brings up a few people asking what Car Tracer is because they've found it on census and they are all in the US.  General concensus is something to do with the railroad.

Googling it in the UK brings up nothing.
GREENWELL - Middlesbrough
TURNBULL - Houghton le Spring, Coxhoe, Spennymoor
DEVEY - Pentonville, Stockton, M'bro
MOHAN/HUN - Stockton on Tees
SCRAFTON - Darlington
BROADBENT - Saddleworth, Ashton Under Lyne
HEMSWELL - Grantham, M'bro
SIMPKINS - M'bro
SIMPKIN - Little Wratting, Suffolk
MALLALIEU - Saddleworth, Ashton U L
GOODWIN - Macclesfield Forest
SUTCLIFFE - Heptonstall, Ashton U L
PLIMMER - Pontesbury, Ashton U L
CAMBRIDGE - Goulborne, Ashton U L
SIDDALL - Ashton U L

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Re: Can Anyone Read These Occupations?
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 19 December 07 13:46 GMT (UK) »
thought for a minute it was "Superman!!"  ;D
Edmonds/Edmunds - mainly Sussex
DeBoo - London
Green - Suffolk
Parker - Sussex
Kemp - Essex
Farrington - Essex
Boniface - West Sussex

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Re: Can Anyone Read These Occupations?
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 19 December 07 14:11 GMT (UK) »
Can you please say which census these entries are from :)

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Re: Can Anyone Read These Occupations?
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 19 December 07 14:36 GMT (UK) »
This is North American Term, he is involved in Railway Traffic Management, Tracer files covering each shipment are kept on the car-tracer's desk. He keeps the records of car movements.
It does not seem to be a UK census.
A Tracer aka Searcher on UK railways traces and searches for missing packages and incoming goods, making the appropriate entries on the invoices when traced or otherwise.


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