unrecognisable occupation on 1901 census

[Gadget]

I think we gave the original ref on page 1 - the missing bit was folio 7

I walked through both census years earlier today - he wasn't dyslexic - just had probs interpreting the householders' writing 

[Gadget]

Ps

Also, as I said, parts are in a mixture of Welsh and English so shouldn't be taken as straight English.

[Mike in Cumbria]

Thanks, got it now. On the same page, I'm seeing words like "schoolar" for scholar, and "Gardner" for gardener.

[Mike in Cumbria]

... He also completed the 1891 census for Llanrhaiadr yn Ngimerch.  ...

Did you find Robert Roberts there?

[Gadget]

1891  4629/82/4

A thrashing engine driver

(- RC's going ever so slow  )

He was not in Llanrhaeadr

(circles and going around come to mind    )

[Mike in Cumbria]

1891  4629/82/4

A thrashing engine driver

(- RC's going ever so slow  )

Oops - I trawled back and saw it, just too late. he's been a bit of a general agricultural all-rounder, then.Like many of my own ancestors.

[cnerys]

Thank you for trying  I think I am going to have to try to find the newspaper report to find out what his death was all about.
Kind regards
Nerys

[known_unknowns]

OK, let's have another bash at this.

I had another closer look at the formation of the letters on the original census form: the first letter looks like a F with a curl on the top cross-stroke (it's not like the T on the treshing-engine driver entry), then it could be a E, then possibly two R's. Then a looped letter, possibly an E. The next letter could be a T formed with a loop making it seem like a P; then an E, then a R - making the word/occupation Ferriter or Ferreter.

(I couldn't find any reference to Roberts' accident in the newspaper archives avavilable on various sites.)

[Dalum]

....... - making the word/occupation Ferriter or Ferreter.

This makes a lot of sense to me. I was looking at the abbreviation written next to these words during the classification process. It apppears to be the letter 'O' followed by one number (2?, 7?) over another (1?, 7?).

I could only find one other entry in the e.d. which has an 'O' followed by a number (O 7), and that was for a 'mole catcher'. Sorry I didn't note which page.

Is it possible we actually have two attempts to write the same word ?!

Hugh