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  • Can anyone read this occupation please?

    Can anyone tell me what Mark Bate's occupation is please?

    - Ancestry.com.au
    Pam

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    Pam,

    The link opens a blank sign-in page for Ancestry.com.au and wants a sub paid.

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    • #3
      LOL.

      It works for me GallowayLass. Dont know what else to do?
      Pam

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      • #4
        Galloway Lass, you need to enter your log in details and it takes you to the page.
        If not the reference is RG12; Piece: 2307; Folio 16; Page 25
        Elaine







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        • #5
          1891 census.

          Class RG12. Piece 2307 Folio 16 Page 25

          Mark Bate
          Pam

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          • #6
            Could it be ? Lighter Master?


            Joy

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            • #7
              FMP transcribes it as Painter master ?
              Elaine







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              • #8
                Got it now, thanks Elaine.

                It looks like Lighter master to me.

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                • #9
                  thanks Joy, Elaine and Galloway Lass.

                  But what is a lighter master or painter master
                  Pam

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                  • #10
                    Could this be it?
                    The captain of a covered barge or lighter has charge of the
                    boat and its cargo. He takes care of the lines, shifts the boat, pumps
                    the boat, and makes minor repairs. He tallies and signs cargo on and
                    off the boat and is responsible for the cargo. The captain directs the
                    loading and unloading of the boat and gets the boat ready to load.

                    Lighter seems to be another word for a barge
                    John

                    Brick wall in Ireland demolished after 25 years! Looking for any more Carrolls of Stradbally Parish, Waterford in particular Thomas Carroll b1861 married Bridget Leavy 1896 in QLD Australia..chipping away!

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                    • #11
                      I agree with John, some of my cousin's OH's family from Hull area were bargemen and lightermen.

                      I notice your man lived in Kingswinford, that's a name familiar to me as I had to go to GENUKI and look it up while researching my gran's family. Maybe he worked the canals around Birmingham?
                      Last edited by GallowayLass; 07-04-09, 17:20.

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                      • #12
                        Galloway Lass.

                        I go back to 1666 so far in Kingswinford. and am still here :D Stoke is quite a way from here, so if it is to do with canals, he probably worked near K/Ford.
                        Thanks.

                        John.
                        Thanks for that information
                        Pam

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                        • #13
                          You're welcome Pam. Not often I get to help and I am normally the one asking
                          John

                          Brick wall in Ireland demolished after 25 years! Looking for any more Carrolls of Stradbally Parish, Waterford in particular Thomas Carroll b1861 married Bridget Leavy 1896 in QLD Australia..chipping away!

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