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Handwriting job wise
« on: Tuesday 25 February 20 20:14 GMT (UK) »
 ???Can any one make out what my Great Uncle job was.
I cannot work it out myself so can anyone out
there as any idea cause I can't

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Re: Handwriting job wise
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 25 February 20 20:35 GMT (UK) »
I think it could be Brick Maker.

If you look elsewhere on the page (1901 Census - RG13/2900 fo25 p13) you'll see several examples of a rather unusual 'k' - Silk Ribbon Weavers, Bulkington, Warwicks[hire] etc, and this occupation seems to have two of the same.

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Re: Handwriting job wise
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 26 February 20 11:49 GMT (UK) »
Yes it reads like that.
 :)Thank you for time,
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Re: Handwriting job wise
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 26 February 20 12:19 GMT (UK) »
It seems that he has changed his occupation by 1911.  In that census it is Boat Loader in a colliery.  His birth place is given as Everdon, Northamptonshire.

Living at Bedworth Hill Exhall, Exhall, Warwickshire with wife Louisa and five children.

Ashford: Somerset, London
England: Devon, London, New Zealand
Holdway: Wiltshire
Hooper: Bristol, Somerset
Knowling: Devon, London
Southcott: Devon, China
Strong: Wiltshire
Watson: Cambridgeshire
White: Bristol
Windo - Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire


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Re: Handwriting job wise
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 26 February 20 14:41 GMT (UK) »
Wonder if it is Barrel maker?
Normally that would be a cooper but they were barrel makers so the less formal term has been used.
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Re: Handwriting job wise
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 26 February 20 15:00 GMT (UK) »
Having looked at the page in question there's no doubt that the enumerator wrote the letter in a very unusual way. What looks like an 'l' in the middle of the word in question seems to be the downstroke of the letter 'k'. The looped character after it is the remainder of the letter 'k'.

Compare with 'Brickyard' higher up on the same page.

I agree with Arthur, it looks like brickmaker to me  :)
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Re: Handwriting job wise
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 26 February 20 15:21 GMT (UK) »
I missed this one and I read it as brick maker when I saw it, without ref to other replies.

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