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    1851

    HO107 2261 320 47

    The household of Thurston Fish... Margaret and Thomas B, (twins) aged 27, are bracketed together and something is written in the occupation column which I cannot decipher

    "both at ????"

    Can anyone else read it please?

    OC

  • #2
    Not too sure - "both at ? ABESTH??" - but that doesn't really make sense.
    herky
    herky
    Researching - Trimmer (Farringdon), Noble & Taylor (Ross and Cromarty), Norris (Glasgow), McGilvray (Glasgow and Australia), Leck & Efford (Glasgow), Ferrett (Hampshire), Jenkins & Williams (Aberystwyth), Morton (Motherwell and Tipton), Barrowman (Glasgow), Lilley (Bromsgrove and Glasgow), Cresswell (England and Lanarkshire). Simpson, Morrow and Norris in Ireland. Thomas Price b c 1844 Scotland.

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    • #3
      Herky

      Yes, that's what I read too, and no, it doesn't make sense!

      OC

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      • #4
        How about "both at a berth".
        Is a "loom weaver" a job two people are required to do?

        Martin

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        • #5
          Jimi

          No, not as far as I know - loads of weavers in my family.

          It seems very odd they have been bracketed together and I am most intrigued!

          Thankyou for looking.

          OC

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          • #6
            Looks like 'both at a birth' to me in reference to the brackets. ie twins
            Hail Spode!

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            • #7
              I also thought it said 'both at a birth'. But just looking at it, could the first word be 'born'?
              Jeanette
              Don't interpret this smile as happiness; it's insanity! :D

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              • #8
                But how odd to remark on a census that way! Why not just put "twins" if the enumerator felt he HAD to make some remark?! Who did he think would be interested?

                OC

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                • #9
                  what is their occupation? I can't make it out fully and can't even guess coming from a family of lead miners.

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                  • #10
                    Cotton loom weavers. Everyone in Darwen was a cotton loom weaver!

                    Perhaps Mrs Fish was a bit challenged in the brain department and didn't know the word "twins", so told the enumerator that they were both born at the same birth....I am embarrassed to have such dim ancestors.

                    OC

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                    • #11
                      maybe I'm a bit dim but it doesn't say cotton loom weaver to me.

                      perhaps "PAIVER"???

                      Please forgive me if I am totally wrong I normally am. :o

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                      • #12
                        To me the occupation looks like Power Loom Weaver.
                        The smaller writing looks like it says, "both at a birth"......perhaps they were not home at the time the enumerator called, but with some poor dear who was aabout to become a mother.

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                        • #13
                          Lyn

                          Sorry, yes, it is power loom weaver! I knew that but typed cotton loom weaver instead, it's my brain you know.

                          Could understand Margaret attending a birth...but Thomas?

                          OC

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                          • #14
                            Well I think it says 'both at a birth' as well

                            Perhaps the ennumerator was concerned that they were both the same age and he (the ennumerator) might have been questioned about it. It wouldn't have been so unusual if they had been - say - 8 years old, everyone would assume they were twins. 27 is quite advanced in years for twins to be both still living at home.

                            Anne

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                            • #15
                              I see the transcript makes John K aged 27 as well, and it does look like it on the image. Is it biologically possible to have a twin and a single birth within 12 months?

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                              • #16
                                I guess that I'm the odd one out here then, (nowt new there then!!)

                                I can see "both at birth" too, BUT I can also see "both as above" ie in occupation?? loom weavers??
                                Last edited by Darksecretz; 20-12-08, 10:28.
                                Julie
                                They're coming to take me away haha hee hee..........

                                .......I find dead people

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                                • #17
                                  Roger - on the image I think John is 21 and Benjamin is 20.

                                  Anne

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                                  • #18
                                    Roger

                                    I have most of the baptisms for this family and John K(nowles) is 21, born 1829.

                                    There were three sets of twins in this family but only Margaret and Thomas survived as a pair.

                                    OC

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                                    • #19
                                      Originally posted by Olde Crone Holden View Post
                                      Lyn

                                      Sorry, yes, it is power loom weaver! I knew that but typed cotton loom weaver instead, it's my brain you know.

                                      Could understand Margaret attending a birth...but Thomas?

                                      OC
                                      OC,
                                      Maybe to escort her home?? Keep the hubby calm?? LOL!!....I don't know it was just a thought!;)

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                                      • #20
                                        Originally posted by Olde Crone Holden View Post
                                        Who did he think would be interested?

                                        OC
                                        You, probably! lol

                                        I looked to see who the enumerator was in case he or she turned out to be your relative , but Ancestry have filmed the wrong page, so the bit with his name is missing!!

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