Proc & (asst)

[Polly]

Does anyone know what this occupation is ? 1891 census,possibly to do with ship building on the Clyde..

[Jessbowbag]

can we look at the actual page please?

What is the RG No.

[Polly]

can we look at the actual page please?

What is the RG No.

Source Citation: Parish: Glasgow Barony; ED: 29; Page: 13; Line: 3; Roll: CSSCT1891_282; Year: 1841.

Source Information:
Ancestry.com. 1891 Scotland Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2007. Original data: Scotland. 1891 Scotland Census. Reels 1-409. General Register Office for Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Description:
The 1891 Census for Scotland was taken on the night of 5/6 April 1891. The following information was requested: place, name, relationship to head of family, marital status, age, gender, profession, birthplace, and whether blind, deaf,



Is this it?

[Uncle John]

A name and age would help as well. The ref you gave produced 24 people, none of them with these occupations. Seems to be Clyde Street Glasgow, so there's several boiler makers. And is it 1891 or 1841?

[KiteRunner]

Polly, have you looked at the actual census image on Scotland's People or just the transcription on ancestry? I'm sorry to say that the transcriptions of occupations on ancestry can be way out!

[Little Nell]

Procurer?

Grocer's Assistant?

[borobabs]

Think the name Polys on about is Polley ???

[Polly]

Sorry,didn't notice this,,

Alexander Polly born in Ireland 1840.1891 Scottish Census.
6 Stanhope Place .Glasgow Barony.

Just seemed an odd occupation.

[Anne in Carlisle]

I don't get to look at the actual image on ancestry but the transcription says he is a boilermaker. I can't see the other thing you are referring to!

Alexander Polly, 6 stanhope Place, boilermaker
Also in family are Jane, Alex, Mary June, Robert c, and Sarah Polly.

Anne

[Polly]

I don't get to look at the actual image on ancestry but the transcription says he is a boilermaker. I can't see the other thing you are referring to!

Alexander Polly, 6 stanhope Place, boilermaker
Also in family are Jane, Alex, Mary June, Robert c, and Sarah Polly.

Anne

Thank you,,Very odd.The rest of the names are the same..Must be an error,boiler maker sounds right.I was looking at the Ancestry census..

Thank you everyone..

Now,if I can just crack my Alexander McKenzie,I'll be happy but no chance of him turning up...
No information,just a name.

[JudithM]

The occupation you refer to, Proc & (Asst) is given by Ancestry in their transcription of the entry for Alex Polly aged 23, in the same household as your Alexander. As it is a transcripton I wonder whether the original was actually Grocers Asst or something similar?

[Polly]

The occupation you refer to, Proc & (Asst) is given by Ancestry in their transcription of the entry for Alex Polly aged 23, in the same household as your Alexander. As it is a transcripton I wonder whether the original was actually Grocers Asst or something similar?

I got father and son mixed up...:o

That was suggested earlier.In the census in 1881 he was a message boy,so that follows on to that..

Thank you..