Questions tagged [occupation]
For questions about determining or interpreting the job, profession or avocation of an ancestor.
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Occupation 1841 Scottish census [closed]
I have a man aged 65 in the Scottish 1841 census and his occupation is Mer, Ner or Her. I have looked online and cannot find the answer. He was a Carter Pauper in the 1851 census.
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Does being a "Yeoman" imply that the person is a "Bachelor"
I have seen in english church marriage registers:
Richard Carver of this parish, yeoman
and Elizabeth Chapman of this parish, spinster
and was wondering if a yeoman must be unmarried?
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Clarification about men being Munition Workers (on Birth Certificate)
I am intrigued by this occupation on a birth certificate from 1918 in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire:
Munitions Worker
According to this article it implies such a role would be performed by women.
Can ...
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Occupation Column on Passenger List [duplicate]
On the Mar 9, 1853 Passenger List for the Shannon, what does “do” in the Occupation Column for a child mean?
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Transcribing place of occupation (Coal Pit) and information about it
I am trying to determine the Coal Pit where Samuel Harris was stated to have been working on 13 Feb 1877 in Irvine.
I can make out:
Samuel Harris
Engineman at
Bay? Coal Pit
I tried to google it (eg: ...
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Translating profession from two records written in Kurrentshrift
I'm struggling to identify these characters in two records for the same person, recorded one year apart. The documents are from around 1900 and written in Kurrent, and I've tried using both a Kurrent ...
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Reading occupation in 1860 US census record
Below is an excerpt from an 1860 US Census record for Wheeling, (West) Virginia.
What is the occupation listed at the bottom?
The first letter looks like an M, and the last three look like 'der'. ...
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Where in England would a young man, 14-15, be sent to learn trade of an iron molder about 1815?
My ggf, Robert Stanton, was born somewhere in England about 1800. We do not know parents or siblings names.
The first record we have is a baptism of a daughter in St Ann, County Antrim, Belfast, with ...
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How to find a slater named Patrick M Golden in 1870 records?
According to this image from NARA microfilm publication M233, published as part of United States Registers of Enlistments in the U.S. Army, 1798-1914, Irish immigrant Patrick Golden worked as a slater ...
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What is Census occupation named Folder Work?
A Census record for London from 1901 includes “Folder Work” as the occupation of a 15-year-old boy. (What is possibly the same individual a decade later was occupied as a “Malsters Labourer”.):
The ...
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Who would grant a lion tamer licence in northern England?
My great uncle Walter Manton Partington trained circus lions. His circus name was Retlaw. He was apparently the only trainer to have a licence in northern England in the early to mid 1900's. Under ...
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What type of journey from Plymouth to Exeter in 1751 might cost 1 pound 5 shillings?
My 6th great-grandfather Robert Osment was baptised on 8 Mar 1703, married (to Elizabeth Simons) on 3 Jan 1729, and buried on 6 May 1756, with these life events all occurring at Plymouth Charles, ...
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Reading occupations in 1841 UK census for James Nichols and his father William?
I can not read either occupations on this 1841 UK census date for James Nichols and his father William Nichols, can somebody else read it?
I can not find any occupations starting with PIN that match ...
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Looking for more occupational records of Walter Cowin
Looking for occupational records of a Walter Cowin, born circa 1910. He can be found on the 1939 register living at 6 Mill Street Chester, as a "public works labourer".
He was between the age of 18 ...
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Records of joiners in Glasgow and Edinburgh
What was the procedure for becoming a joiner in Glasgow and Edinburgh around 1840? Are there records of qualified joiners? Was it necessary to have already a relative in the trade to be accepted for ...