Pages: [1]

Author Topic: Occupation ( I think)  (Read 552 times)

Offline Max2121

  • RootsChat Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 212
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Occupation ( I think)
« on: Tuesday 16 July 24 14:18 BST (UK) »
Hello, this is from a baptism 1750, anyone able to tell what it says?

Thank you

Offline QueenoftheWest

  • RootsChat Aristocrat
  • ******
  • Posts: 1,536
    • View Profile
Re: Occupation ( I think)
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 16 July 24 14:29 BST (UK) »
Extraordinary tidesman?

Tidesman: alternate term for a Tide Waiter, a customs official who boarded ships to collect duty and check for smuggled goods.

Queenie  :)

Offline Jebber

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 5,703
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: Occupation ( I think)
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 16 July 24 14:30 BST (UK) »
I agree, you Just beat me to it.
CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
COLE Gt. Oakley, & Lt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.

Offline Max2121

  • RootsChat Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 212
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: Occupation ( I think)
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 17 July 24 19:06 BST (UK) »
Thank you

Offline bbart

  • RootsChat Aristocrat
  • ******
  • Posts: 2,384
    • View Profile
Re: Occupation ( I think)
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 17 July 24 23:55 BST (UK) »
I was curious as to the "why" some tidesmen were "extraordinary", so I'm just posting a clip of the middle of a long explanation from the Dublin Daily Express, dated 10 August 1910 in case others are as curious as I am!

Although the paper is from 1910, the article was "looking back in time" at the old occupation of tidesmen.

Offline Max2121

  • RootsChat Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 212
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: Occupation ( I think)
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 18 July 24 14:39 BST (UK) »
Quote from: bbart on Wednesday 17 July 24 23:55 BST (UK)
I was curious as to the "why" some tidesmen were "extraordinary", so I'm just posting a clip of the middle of a long explanation from the Dublin Daily Express, dated 10 August 1910 in case others are as curious as I am!

Although the paper is from 1910, the article was "looking back in time" at the old occupation of tidesmen.

That is so interesting, thank you so much for this.
Pages: [1]