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    can anyone make out what John Breedons occupation is as well as Farmer

    please..

    - Ancestry.co.uk

    thanks

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

    .......I find dead people

  • #2
    contractor? except that the end looks like -er
    Gillian
    User page: http://www.familytreeforum.com/wiki/...ustGillian-117

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    • #3
      Coal ...... I can't make out the end bit.

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      • #4
        hmmmm one thing for sure, its got me stumped!!
        Julie
        They're coming to take me away haha hee hee..........

        .......I find dead people

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        • #5
          I was wondering if it was cow something
          Hail Spode!

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          • #6
            He wasn't the best of spellers - looking at the "acers" on the next page, so I think I still like contractor for it.
            Gillian
            User page: http://www.familytreeforum.com/wiki/...ustGillian-117

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            • #7
              Have you tried looking at a later census, hopefully he will have the same occupation but the transcription will be clearer.

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              • #8
                I think its contractor. The letter that could be either an n or an a looks more like the n in assistant two lines below than the a in the village name.


                Wonder if he had some mechanised equipment (thresher or cutter) that he took round the neighbouing farms?
                Barbara

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                • #9
                  I think it is coal porter, though the first r in porter looks like a c. [found an old document dated 1819 in which all the cs looked like rs].
                  ~ with love from Little Nell~
                  Chowns, Dunt, Emms, Mealing, Purvey & Smoothy

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                  • #10
                    I think it says contractor as well but spelt with er at the end
                    Lin

                    Searching Lowe, Everitt, Hurt and Dunns in Nottingham

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                    • #11
                      now having studied it abit more, I do think that it does say 'contractor'

                      bit of a tricky family though, but I do want to try and follow them up to 1901. (I mean him and his siblings and any of their children)

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

                      .......I find dead people

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Little Nell View Post
                        I think it is coal porter, though the first r in porter looks like a c. [found an old document dated 1819 in which all the cs looked like rs].
                        Looking at it last night I thought it was coal ...... couldn't quite make the rest out but I agree with Litttle Nell coal porter.

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                        • #13
                          And a reference that coal porters were recognised:

                          Lamplighter and Coal Porter c. 1806-70
                          Before 1806 an allowance was made available to the Housekeeper from the contingent fund for the purpose of employing a man servant to perform menial tasks. From 1806 a salary was paid directly to the servant who was subsequently designated Lamplighter and Coal Porter. (fn. 1) The office was placed on the establishment in 1854. (fn. 2) The salary, £67 6s. in 1806, was increased to £80 in 1813 and to £94 12s. in 1832. (fn. 3)

                          From: 'Lamplighter and Coal Porter c. 1806-70', Office-Holders in Modern Britain: Volume 8: Foreign Office Officials 1782-1870 (1979), pp. 54. URL: Lamplighter and Coal Porter c. 1806-70 | British History Online Date accessed: 22 March 2009.

                          Probably just adds to the fog

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                          • #14
                            thanks something else I didn't know
                            Julie
                            They're coming to take me away haha hee hee..........

                            .......I find dead people

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                            • #15
                              I see it's the Foreign Office. Another lowly Civil Service grade is/was Paperkeeper, which I suppose equates to filing clerk.
                              Uncle John - Passed away March 2020

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                              • #16
                                Hi,

                                I too agree with Little Nell. It looks like coal porter to me. A coal porter carried and delivered coal.

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                                • #17
                                  Originally posted by Uncle John View Post
                                  I see it's the Foreign Office. Another lowly Civil Service grade is/was Paperkeeper, which I suppose equates to filing clerk.
                                  (wonders what UJ is drinking) ;)

                                  The place where he was living is Brackenfield, which is in Derbyshire not too far from Alfreton/Matlock area this is pretty much the same today as primarily agricultural, surely they would use 'other' methods of fuel rather than coal?? (wood for example) as this would be free and readily available.
                                  Julie
                                  They're coming to take me away haha hee hee..........

                                  .......I find dead people

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                                  • #18
                                    It definitely says farmer and contracter.

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                                    • #19
                                      thanks Mary....



                                      it puzzled me, but the rest of the family were either Butchers or Farmers, but am slowly getting to the bottom of them now... just nice to see/go sideways and find stuff.
                                      Julie
                                      They're coming to take me away haha hee hee..........

                                      .......I find dead people

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                                      • #20
                                        If they lived in Derbyshire coal would have been local and cheap so even with access to timber they would have used coal - not sure that helps at all !!
                                        Roger : )

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