Re: Opinion Wanted, Please

In message <e158831pgk2sup3tr6t91ekj94s4d8tp0u@xxxxxxx>
Phil C. <philstoxicwaste@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:26:59 +0100, Graeme Wall
<Graeme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In message <6sv7839bpiv2igcdb01mp2nrpubldklelr@xxxxxxx>
Phil C. <philstoxicwaste@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:52:00 +0100, Graeme Wall
<Graeme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In message <4683d5ad$0$12383$426a74cc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
john <jfu-675h@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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His occupation is "pressman at oilcake mills" so, if he was a
carter a few years later, it is unlikely to be the same person.


Doesn't follow at all, the mill could have closed down, or he was ill
and got sacked. A carter is a relatively unskilled occupation that
he could have picked up in such circumstances.

Or he could have had more than one job. A worker at the oilcake mills
may also have done some carting for them when the need arose?

Of course, but on a census is more likely to give his main occupation.

Yes but that might be a matter of definition or a small change in the
balance of the occupations. I noticed one the other day who was down as
"ostler, groom & beer house keeper". (That seems an unusually long list.)
At first his entry just gave him as landlord of a pub but that had been
crossed out.

As you know, pubs were different to beer-houses, so it sounds like the
enumerator was being meticulous.

Perhaps the beer house keeping was new, had grown in
importance or had just not been mentioned in the previous census. Before
any of that he'd been baker and grocer.

That branch of my family seems prone to a variety of concurrent occupations
and varying perceptions of them, depending who's asking and who's telling.

My engine driver's siblings had an interesting variety of occupations,
2 Dressmakers, Milliner, Soldier, Stationer, Butcher, Civil Service Clerk,
Book Folder, Compositor & Lithographer, Bookbinder and Stoker.

Father was a barrister's clerk.

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Graeme Wall

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