Help with reading this

[Magrat]

Can anyone help with reading the surname of William and also what sort of glass cutter is it?

[Sandgrounder1]

Hi

The first one looks like "Girdler" but I can't make out the occupation. 

Sandgrounder

[Sandgrounder1]

Hello again

I think the second is "flint glass cutter"

Sandgrounder

[Magrat]

Hi,

Thank you for that swift response.  I had wondered if it was Girdler. You could be right about the Flint glass Cutter, although I have many glass cutters in my family tree (including to the present day) I couldn't think what it might be.

Cheers
Magrat

[Gadget]

Could it be Güdler (with an umlaut over the u)  rather than Girdler


Gadget

[Mumsie2131]

I agree with Gadget I too thought it was Güdler I also agree with the Flint Glass Cutter

[Magrat]

Hi,

Thanks for the alternative suggestion for the name.  I will check for them under the name Gudler as well.

Cheers
Magrat

[JAP]

A Google for Flint Glass gets several hits including (but not only):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_glass

GUDLER (rare) and GIRDLER (fairly common) are both names which appear on FreeBMD.

Magrat, It might perhaps help were you to advise the date of the census and any other information you have?

Regards,

JAP

[avm228]

It's hard to tell with so little information, but I wonder whether this couple might be the same as the William GIRDLER, 55, Glasscutter b Southwark, and his wife Charlotte, 53, b City of London, enumerated in St Bartholomew the Great, London in 1881: RG11/374/99/29.

(In which case presumably the extracted page, showing Charlotte as aged 23?, must be from 1851?)

Anna