Deciphering an occupation from parish marriage record

[RedPlume]

Hi everyone,

I'd really appreciate a bit of help with the groom's father's occupation on this record. I read everything else except this. Could Henry Bridge have been a carver? Or perhaps a carner, but that doesn't look like an n before the er. I'm not sure what Henry would have been a carver of in 1867.

Screenshot are attached and here's the original Ancestry record. https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discoveryui-content/view/3139117:1623?_phsrc=bzW65&_phstart=successSource&gsfn=Phillip+&gsln=Bridge&ml_rpos=1&queryId=1e278ffd776d05d94409fbfc489ca6c2

I would really appreciate any ideas or advice that any one might have. Thank you!

[Janet Waterhouse]

Hi RedPlume,

could be Carrier.

Regards,

Janet

[Neale1961]

It looks like “carver” to me.
There was an occupation “carver and gilder” who made ornate picture frames, and fancy detail on furniture
What occupation does he show on the census?

[Janet Waterhouse]

I  concur with Neale1961, Carver.
 
The double r's in Surrey link differently, also the way in which the 'w' in Brown and the second 'w' in widower link to the 'n and e' with a curl, indicates the letter 'v' link with a curl to 'e' in Carver.

Janet

[MonicaL]

Phillip Alexander Bridge, son of Henry and Charlotte Clara. Baptised 8 Jan 1824. Occupation for father Henry more clearly showing as Carver.

A number of siblings' baptisms showing. All at St Mary, Rotherhithe.

Parish marriage for parents, Henry and Charlotte Clark (ms Dark) on 9 Apr 1813 at St Mary, Newington, Surrey.

Monica

[MonicaL]

Likely death for Henry Bridge, carver, in 1829. Buried on 22 Oct 1829 , St Mary Rotherhithe. Aged c. 37 at death so born c. 1792.

Unfortunately, the fact that a father was already deceased at the time of a child's marriage is not always recorded on the marriage registration.

Monica