I wonder if anyone out there can help me to identify what is said on this census entry for 1901? The person I am interested in is Mary Ann Lord, the fourth name down, and the word I'm having trouble with is under profession/occupation, where it describes her as 'housemaid' followed by a words that looks something like 'armsolu' to me. If it helps, the same word is used in the entry for the cook above Mary Ann's. Thanks for any help.
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I still read it as housemaid, but there is no ascender on the "d" and the "o"s are very open, as they are in the word cook.
Never seen a dressmaker described as "domestic" in a census return (although that doesn't mean one couldn't have been!) but I have seen lots of house servants labelled so, presumably to distinguish them from servants employed in the business. Also in rural areas domestic is sometimes used to distinguish between girls working in the farm house and others employed in dairy work or permanently employed in the laundry of a big house.
JayJanet in Yorkshire
Genealogists never die - they just swap places in the family tree
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