I don't know, magnified it looks (literally) like Herrager, and the writing isn't that bad! lol
I would quite like the first word to be bell, as I am desperately searching for Samuel James, brazier. Brazier ........ brass .......... bell.........???
I am grasping at straws I know, it's all I have left, lolol
Brazier definition is "someone who works with brass".
Bells are made of brass (normally) and so are gas fiittings. Or they are now, I suppose they were then. I think .......!!!
But as I feel like I've looked up the occupation of every Samuel James in the entire country and this is the only one that comes close to Brazier, plus he is in the right place-ish (give or take 100 miles!), he and his lot will be ceremoniously added to my Possible, Probables and Not Entirely Sure's tree.
PS OH reckons gas fittings are made of copper not brass. Trust him ...!
This is the same son who is born in Oxfordshire on one census, Middlesex on the next and nowhere on the third .... which is maybe why Samuel and Caroline are born out of county from Middlesex in 1841, but born in Middlesex on the other censuses!! Clearly this family have either bad memories or a problem with geography.
From pedants' corner: bells are normally made of bronze. And gas fittings could be brass or bronze or copper. A brazier brazes (a form of higher-temperature soldering) which could aply to any of these metals.
I hadn't thought of it before, but the adjective "brazen" refers to bronze...
And we have this chap in OH's tree:
William Robert WHITEHEAD (COCKS):
b c1851-2 [1861/1871] c1853 Portsmouth [Roy GR 92671] 1851q4 Portsea 7-204
1861RG9-639: age 9, scholar; ("Cocks" at G'ma) 6 Warblington St, Portsmouth
1871RG10-1136: age 19, gas fitter & bell hanger; ("Cocks" at G'ma) 4 Warblington St, Portsmouth
m1 1874q3 St Saviour 1d-84 Emily GREGG
1881RG11/47fo54p38: age 29, smith; 164 Ifield Rd, Kensington
1891RG12/920fo6p6: age 40, plumber; boarder 82 East St, Soton [1891]
m2 1897q2 Soton 2c-97 Alice Lydia BARNES
d 1899q3 age 47, Soton 2c-11
The variable surname is because he was born before the marriage of Miss Whitehead to Mr Cocks.
Christine
Researching: BENNETT (Leics/Birmingham-ish) - incl. Leonard BENNETT in Detroit & Florida ; WARR/WOR, STRATFORD & GARDNER/GARNAR (Oxon); CHRISTMAS, RUSSELL, PAFOOT/PAFFORD (Hants); BIGWOOD, HAYLER/HAILOR (Sussex); LANCASTER (Beds, Berks, Wilts) - plus - COCKS (Spitalfields, Liverpool, Plymouth); RUSE/ROWSE, TREMEER, WADLIN(G)/WADLETON (Devonport, E Cornwall); GOULD (S Devon); CHAPMAN, HALL/HOLE, HORN (N Devon); BARRON, SCANTLEBURY (Mevagissey)...
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