Profession deciphering

[ajf101]

Hi sleuths,

I've got the record of marriage banns and I am stuck deciphering the profession - which is the one piece of information I am most keen on getting out of this!

Any help gratefully received. My understanding is that his work at this time was related to trade with Newfoundland, so merchant/sailing/etc. But struggling to work out what this could be; even found a list of professions but nothing seems to line up. I think it begins F and ends "er" but stuck for the middle. The other text we know:

- John Mortimer
- Bachelor (with profession crossed off underneath)
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- Redland
- John Mortimer
- Fuller

- Emma Churchward
- Spinster
- Redland
- James Churchward
- Mariner

Many thanks for any help you can provide!

[KGarrad]

Traveller?

[ShaunJ]

Yes I see Traveller too

[ajf101]

Thanks both. That option hadn't crossed my mind since I was thinking specifically of professions. Did "traveller" have any specific meaning in those days?

[KGarrad]

I was thinking along the lines of Traveling Salesman?

[ShaunJ]

"Commercial Traveller: generic term meaning Hawker, Pedlar, travelling trader."

https://www.familyresearcher.co.uk/glossary/Dictionary-of-Old-Occupations-jobs-beginning-C8.html

[ajf101]

Ah! Perfect. He once appeared in a Newfoundland directory as a "pedlar" to this all lines up perfectly. Thank you so much!

[Gadget]

Was he the one who is down as Foreman in Corn Trade in the 1871?  He and Emma b. Devon, 7 children b Canada and youngest b. Somerset

Cambridge Terrace, Bedminster
RG10/2510/18/28


Gadget

[Gadget]

The 1871 is the family. The youngest, Mary, registered Bedminster, 1879, mmn Churchward.