Please, some more handwriting help...

[greenweedz]

This forum was so helpful when I couldn't decipher the handwriting on my great-grandparents' marriage record.
Now I have a second set of g-gps, and I'm not sure if I'm reading her profession or her father's profession correctly: is she a "fancy box maker"? It doesn't look much like an F, but what else could it be? And what is a fancy box?
 And under her father's profession, it definitely looks like "store..." something. You'd think storekeeper, but that doesn't look like a K. Store broker? That doesn't make sense to me. I thought maybe it wasn't "store" but "stone"... Stone broker? Stone breaker? But I really think that's an "r" in the word, not an "n".

Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks very much in advance.

[lizdb]

Id go 100% for fancy box maker

And probably stone breaker, though does look more like broker ....

[MonicaL]

I'm cheating  I've looked at the 1881 census where he shows as a Drapery Store Keeper (so I think safe to say Store Keeper on Agnes' marriage entry).

Have you got census entries for the family, if not, let us know and one of us can post 

Monica

[greenweedz]

lizdb, yes, I'm going to go with Fancy Box Maker. Just needed someone to confirm it! ...and I did find that it was a career back then, though I haven't found a definition for it. Thank you!

Monica, thanks. I didn't think to check the profession in the census records. Store Keeper is a far cry from Stone Breaker! No, I haven't done census research yet, but I do intend to. Thank you for the offer, though. This group has been so helpful that I'm going to save it just for the stuff that has me truly stumped.

[MonicaL]

Just a couple of links for background on the Brackenridge side:

http://home.freeuk.net/wcouperthw/fam00203.htm
http://searches2.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/AYRSHIRE/2005-03/1110335162

Monica 

[greenweedz]

Monica, were the Brackenridges part of your family?

Family lore has it that a relative, Jean Brackenridge, was Robert Burns's sister-in-law.

"Today, the Edinburgh Writers' Museum ... holds numerous memorabilia, including an intriguing marble apple he bought as a wedding present for his brother Gilbert and his wife,"

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/features/In-the-footsteps-of-Burns.4888326.jp

[greenweedz]

Sorry, meant to send this link too

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=buchroeder&id=I567231092

[MonicaL]

HI GWz

Sadly, no Brackenridges on my side, just helping out with the searches 

Monica

[BumbleB]

A fancy-box was a box made to hold boots, collars, ties, corsets, buttons, bonnets etc.  www.victorianlondon.org/publications3/newtoilers-2.htm.

I just googled fancy box and this was one of the sites - the article is actually about match box makers, but fancy-boxes are mentioned in it.

BumbleB