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What is the Occupation? (completed)
« on: Saturday 29 January 11 10:58 GMT (UK) »
Does anyone know the occupation of this young lady please?

The first and sixth one looks to be the same.

Thank you for help.
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Re: What is the Occupation?
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 29 January 11 11:01 GMT (UK) »
Dress maker
Nursall   ~    Buckinghamshire
Avies ~   Norwich

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Re: What is the Occupation?
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 29 January 11 11:04 GMT (UK) »
fourth one =  Plumber

final one = servant
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Re: What is the Occupation?
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 29 January 11 11:23 GMT (UK) »
With a one of the entries being  a mariner one  wonders whether the dress makers were actually members of the oldest profession who frequently described themselves as dress makers in a census.
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Johnson, Routledge, SHIRT, SAICH, Mills, SAUNDERS, EDLIN, Perry, Vickers, Pakeman, Griffiths, Marston, Turner, Child, Sheen, Gray, Woolhouse, Stevens, Batchelor
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Re: What is the Occupation?
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 29 January 11 11:26 GMT (UK) »
With a one of the entries being  a mariner one  wonders whether the dress makers were actually members of the oldest profession who frequently described themselves as dress makers in a census.

That is a gross libel on all sailors and on all dress makers.
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Re: What is the Occupation?
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 29 January 11 11:31 GMT (UK) »
I make it:

1) Dress maker
2)? Apprentice
3)Scholar
4)
5)Plumber
6)Mariner
7)
8)Dress maker
9)Ditto
10)Scholar

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Re: What is the Occupation?
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 29 January 11 11:32 GMT (UK) »
With a one of the entries being  a mariner one  wonders whether the dress makers were actually members of the oldest profession who frequently described themselves as dress makers in a census.

That is a gross libel on all sailors and on all dress makers.

Having both mariners and dress makers in my family, I am bound to agree with Scouseboy!

The sixth occupation isn't servant, I don't think, it's scholar.
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Re: What is the Occupation?
« Reply #7 on: Saturday 29 January 11 11:47 GMT (UK) »
Thanks everyone, dress maker it says then!

Just to clarify as well, the 2 mariners are heads of the 2 famiies and the 3 dress makers are their daughters. 

Thanks for identifying the occupation
Ewan

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Re: What is the Occupation? (completed)
« Reply #8 on: Saturday 29 January 11 12:41 GMT (UK) »
Sorry I should have been a little more explicit.  Working from so little detail I was concluding that the presence of a mariner made it likely that the census item was for a seaport where ladies of the night are found more frequently.  If they were daughters within families then I agree that this was extremely unlikely.  However my original statement that not all dressmakers were just that, should stand, particularly if they were fairly young and not living within families.
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Wilson, Higgs, Buswell, PARCELL, Matthews, TAMKIN, Seckington, Pates, Coupland, Webb, Arthur, MAYNARD, Caves, Norman, Winch, Culverhouse, Drakeley.
Johnson, Routledge, SHIRT, SAICH, Mills, SAUNDERS, EDLIN, Perry, Vickers, Pakeman, Griffiths, Marston, Turner, Child, Sheen, Gray, Woolhouse, Stevens, Batchelor
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