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Offline Mumbles83

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« on: Tuesday 20 March 12 21:58 GMT (UK) »
What this say Fly ??? Greengrocer ???

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« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 20 March 12 22:03 GMT (UK) »
Proprietor
MOXHAM/MOXAM - Wiltshire & Surrey
SKEATS - Surrey
BRETT - Kent & County Durham
and
SWINBANK - anywhere

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« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 20 March 12 22:06 GMT (UK) »
Could "fly" be an abbreviation of Family?
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PRICE Edward (c.1860)  Harry PRICE (1891) Frank PRICE (c.1897), Arthur PRICE (1884). Compton, Tettenhall, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire.
GARFIELD, Edgbaston and Wolverhampton
JOHNSON, Wolverhampton and Bilston
ATKINS, Wolverhamptonand Bilston

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« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 20 March 12 22:10 GMT (UK) »
Fly Proprietor & Greengrocer

Flys were one horse two wheeled carriages for hire, he would have employed the drivers and probably owned a fleet of these

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http://rmhh.co.uk/occup/f.html

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bedfordshire - farr, carver,handley, godfrey, newell, bird, emmerton, underwood,ancell
buckinghamshire- pain
cambridgeshire- bird, carver
hertfordshire- conisbee, bean, saunders, quick,godfrey
derbyshire- allsop, noon
devon - griffin, love, rapsey
dorset- rendall, gale
somerset- rendall, churchill
surrey/middlesex - douglas, conisbee, childs, lyon groombridge

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« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 20 March 12 22:15 GMT (UK) »
As well as Fly Proprietors there were also Cab Proprietors, Brake Proprietors, Coach Proprietors, and Wagonette Proprietors for the different kinds of vehicle.

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« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 20 March 12 22:40 GMT (UK) »
Thank you everyone
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