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Offline Pennines

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Re: Unusual description of a wife's occupation
« Reply #54 on: Monday 31 July 23 17:50 BST (UK) »
Diana - how did you find this - were you job-hunting?!!
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Re: Unusual description of a wife's occupation
« Reply #55 on: Monday 31 July 23 18:36 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Pennines on Monday 31 July 23 17:50 BST (UK)
Diana - how did you find this - were you job-hunting?!!

LOL…how did you know?!
Just turned up on the CBC last night…pure coincidence!

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Re: Unusual description of a wife's occupation
« Reply #56 on: Tuesday 01 August 23 10:23 BST (UK) »
Quote from: BumbleB on Monday 31 July 23 16:38 BST (UK)
Caroline Meredith - I wonder who amended the entry?  :-X
Hi would it be possible to send me the 1921 census entry with Jack Martin and the aforementioned woman? I am researching Jack Martin but do not have 1921 access.
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Re: Unusual description of a wife's occupation
« Reply #57 on: Tuesday 01 August 23 12:27 BST (UK) »
Talking of birth certs, now you can order and download any birth registered between July 1837 and 1922 within perhaps 30 seconds or so on the GRO site. I have an ancestor's cousin born in November 1922 according to the 1939 register, but his birth was registered in the first quarter of 1923. Dang, just missed out on the online downloads.  ;)

I like some of the outspoken views on the census forms such as "Eating, grumbling, sleeping" etc.
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LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain

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Re: Unusual description of a wife's occupation
« Reply #58 on: Tuesday 01 August 23 16:34 BST (UK) »
Quote from: arthurk on Monday 31 July 23 16:50 BST (UK)

The son-in-law signed the form, and the writing on the rest of it looks to be in the same handwriting. However, I've just noticed that the box for 'Wife' has had something else written in it which has been erased, with 'Wife' written over it. I can't make it out, unfortunately. See below.

Has anyone been able to decipher the 'more or less' obliterated word under 'wife' please. I would love to know what that is.
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Re: Unusual description of a wife's occupation
« Reply #59 on: Tuesday 01 August 23 16:52 BST (UK) »
I did wonder if it might just be "Married Woman", as the end of the first word looks to me a bit like '-ied'. However, the first letter isn't the same as the many M's on the form (Married, Martin etc).

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Re: Unusual description of a wife's occupation
« Reply #60 on: Tuesday 01 August 23 16:56 BST (UK) »
I thought the first letter looked a bit like a 'P'.
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