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Offline suzard

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Re: Deciphering occupation please
« Reply #9 on: Saturday 26 March 11 07:55 GMT (UK) »
Have you compared letters with others on page??

I think it is definately "Wheelwright"

There are too many "long" letters for it to be "Wheelsmith" it would have to be spelled something like"Wheelsmifth"!!!!

Also what is a wheelsmith??
I can't find it in "old occupations"

no meaning in Urban dictionary

there are present day compnies with the names "Wheel Smith"

 ?????

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Thornhill, Cresswell, Sisson, Harriman, Cripps, Eyre, Walter, Marson, Battison, Holmes, Bailey, Hardman, Fairhurst Noon-mainly in Derbys/Notts-but also Northampton, Oxford, Leics, Lancs-England
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Re: Deciphering occupation please
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 29 March 11 06:29 BST (UK) »
Wheelwright - for sure! :)
MACKENZIE: Hampshire, London/Surrey/Middlesex, Scotland
SARGENT: Berkshire, Gloucestershire
RIDEWOOD: Middlesex, Somerset
DYER: Hampshire
MACEY: Wiltshire (Chilmark)

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Re: Deciphering occupation please
« Reply #11 on: Friday 01 April 11 06:31 BST (UK) »
Another vote for Wheelwright!

Wiggy   :)
Gaunt, Ransom, McNally, Stanfield, Kimberley. (Tasmania)
Brown, Johnstone, Eskdale, Brand  (Dumfriesshire,  Scotland)
Booth, Bruerton, Deakin, Wilkes, Kimberley
(Warwicks, Staffords)
Gaunt (Yorks)
Percy, Dunning, Hyne, Grigg, Farley (Devon, UK)
Duncan (Fife, Devon), Hugh, Blee (Cornwall)
Green, Mansfield, (Herts)
Cavenaugh, Ransom (Middlesex)
 

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Re: Deciphering occupation please
« Reply #12 on: Friday 01 April 11 08:34 BST (UK) »
And a wheelwright vote from me too!
Suffolk: Pearl(e),  Garnham, Southgate, Blo(o)mfield,Grimwood/Grimwade,Josselyn/Gosling
Durham/Yorkshire: Sedgwick/Sidgwick, Shadforth
Ireland: Davis
Norway: Torreson/Torsen/Torrison
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