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    I would be grateful if someone could read this occupation or suggest what it might be.
    It's possible that it might be linked to a seafaring job/ trade as there are mariners and master mariners also living at this location and one of William's occupations listed over 30 years later was seaman.



    Thanks.

  • #2
    First word - Home - do you think Kate?


    MACPANDA'S FAMILY **Please click in**

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    • #3
      I would guess it says House Steward or House Servant?

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      • #4
        Although it looks more like an "o" than an "a" in the first word, could it be Frame Spinner?
        A frame spinner is someone who tended a machine for spinning cotton threads.
        See: http://rmhh.co.uk/occup/f.html
        Last edited by Cloggie; 06-03-09, 06:09.
        Sarah

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        • #5
          possibly twine spinner?
          Kat

          My avatar is my mother 1921 - 2012

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          • #6
            I like twine spinner for it too.

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            This is one from my family of twine spinners in Wiltshire in 1851. One of the sons later became a ropemaker in the navy.
            Gillian
            User page: http://www.familytreeforum.com/wiki/...ustGillian-117

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            • #7
              I think Gillian & Kat have it - Twine Spinner :D

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              • #8
                yup, I'd go with that,

                Twine Spinner
                Julie
                They're coming to take me away haha hee hee..........

                .......I find dead people

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                • #9
                  Looking at the image again, I think twine spinner is more likely than frame spinner too.
                  Sarah

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                  • #10
                    Me too, Twine Spinner;)
                    Vivienne passed away July 2013

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                    • #11
                      Clever ladies - Kat and Gillian!
                      Gillian, it does look so similar to your sample.

                      I was thinking it was an F or H - didn't give T a thought!

                      Twine spinner certainly makes sense given that I know he had some time at sea even after he arrived in Australia.
                      Perhaps he was apprenticed to a master mariner listed at the same address.

                      Thanks to you all for your input.

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