What was my gggrandpa's job?

[Earth.Traveller]

Would appreciate any help to figure out what my ancestor worked at.

Also attached another handwriting sample from the same document.

[Arranroots]

He was a farmer

 

[Dinkydidy]

I think it's Tanner, looking at other capital T's.

Didy

[Arranroots]

Hmm see what you mean Didy - tricky one!

 

[Isabel H]

Farmer. The first letter has a bar that the T lacks.

[Earth.Traveller]

A little background: my gggrandpa, Andrew, was born 1833 in Rathangan, County Kildare, Ireland.  He was married in 1855 and had about five children. Sometime in the 1860s he and his family moved to Dublin.  They lived at various addresses in the North Strand area (Dublin north inner city) - an unlikely place to find a farmer!  Andrew died in St. Patrick's House an 'old people's home' on South Circular Road, Dublin in 1915.

[Arranroots]

Interesting!

I wonder if admission records survive for the old people's home?  They just might mention his occupation.

Tanner's works weren't very popular and nobody would want to live near one due to the smell but I guess that didn't stop them operating in cities,where there would be a plentiful supply of the "necessary" (urine!)

Kind regards, Arranroots 

[Earth.Traveller]

I first thought 'tanner' and then I saw the 1911 census and it said 'farmer'.  However, he was already in St. Patrick's House at that time, so he did not fill out the form himself.  So an inner city farmer he probably was.  Can't imagine it was that easy, living in terraced houses with no gardens! 

[alpinecottage]

I think he put "farmer" because that's what he thought of himself as.  Perhaps his dream was always to go back to his birthplace and even in old age his view of himself was a farmer from Rathangan.