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Coalman or boatman
« on: Monday 04 July 11 00:18 BST (UK) »
Is Wm Gibb a coalman.That's what I thought it said but the first letter resembles that in 'born'.Also if it is coalman,would it be delivering coal,if it was mining wouldn't it say collier.This is from 1721.
SCOTLAND: Wardlaw Steen/Stein Tweedie McBride McEwan Pate/Peat Brown Somerville Bishop Farier/Ferrier Wood  Torrance Gibb Ross Dunlop Downs Richardson Ramsey Story Snaddon/Sneddon Auld Allan McLean McInnes Mason Law Lawson Kerr Cockburn Christie Ballingall Wardrope Weir Wallace Scott.
IRELAND: Welsh Clifford Lee Allingham Keane Dale Robinson Greer McVey Bingham Skelton Carson Broomfield Clark McEwan/McKeown McCreary McLaughlan.
YORKSHIRE: Cudworth Smith Cope Coulton Hainsworth

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Re: Coalman or boatman
« Reply #1 on: Monday 04 July 11 00:31 BST (UK) »
Looks like boatman to me.

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Re: Coalman or boatman
« Reply #2 on: Monday 04 July 11 00:54 BST (UK) »
Thanks Youngtug,it is on the Firth of Forth so would make sense.I held that info back,didn't want to influence your decision ;)
SCOTLAND: Wardlaw Steen/Stein Tweedie McBride McEwan Pate/Peat Brown Somerville Bishop Farier/Ferrier Wood  Torrance Gibb Ross Dunlop Downs Richardson Ramsey Story Snaddon/Sneddon Auld Allan McLean McInnes Mason Law Lawson Kerr Cockburn Christie Ballingall Wardrope Weir Wallace Scott.
IRELAND: Welsh Clifford Lee Allingham Keane Dale Robinson Greer McVey Bingham Skelton Carson Broomfield Clark McEwan/McKeown McCreary McLaughlan.
YORKSHIRE: Cudworth Smith Cope Coulton Hainsworth

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Re: Coalman or boatman
« Reply #3 on: Monday 04 July 11 01:53 BST (UK) »
A vote for boatman from here too.  Check out the C in the preceding entry, then look at the b's -- definitely a difference.

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Re: Coalman or boatman
« Reply #4 on: Monday 04 July 11 02:01 BST (UK) »
Cheers silvervista,I've had a look at the rest of the whole page and it is looking as if it is a B.
SCOTLAND: Wardlaw Steen/Stein Tweedie McBride McEwan Pate/Peat Brown Somerville Bishop Farier/Ferrier Wood  Torrance Gibb Ross Dunlop Downs Richardson Ramsey Story Snaddon/Sneddon Auld Allan McLean McInnes Mason Law Lawson Kerr Cockburn Christie Ballingall Wardrope Weir Wallace Scott.
IRELAND: Welsh Clifford Lee Allingham Keane Dale Robinson Greer McVey Bingham Skelton Carson Broomfield Clark McEwan/McKeown McCreary McLaughlan.
YORKSHIRE: Cudworth Smith Cope Coulton Hainsworth

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Re: Coalman or boatman
« Reply #5 on: Monday 04 July 11 03:15 BST (UK) »
Gotta go the boatman.


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Re: Coalman or boatman
« Reply #6 on: Monday 04 July 11 05:45 BST (UK) »
Believe it's boatman - a bit ambiguous because the writer does not cross 't's, but
'l's are written with a loop, and no loop in this word. Also, the first letter matches
the 'b' in 'born' very closely.

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Re: Coalman or boatman
« Reply #7 on: Monday 04 July 11 06:11 BST (UK) »
Another vote for 'boatman'  - (before I looked to see what others thought!!)

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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: Coalman or boatman
« Reply #8 on: Monday 04 July 11 08:19 BST (UK) »
Quote from: veeblevort on Monday 04 July 11 05:45 BST (UK)
Believe it's boatman - a bit ambiguous because the writer does not cross 't's, but
'l's are written with a loop, and no loop in this word. Also, the first letter matches
the 'b' in 'born' very closely.

vv.

That's exactly what I was going to say- look at the b in 'born',same as the b in 'boatman'  ;D
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