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  • occupation query ?

    Just a quickie...on Cheshire parish records..(.fathers occupation)what is a XMR ....is it farmer ?...allan:o
    Allan ......... researching oakes/anyon/standish/collins/hartley/barker/collins-cheshire
    oakes/tipping/ellis/jones/schacht/...garston, liverpool
    adams-shropshire/roberts-welshpool
    merrick/lewis/stringham/nicolls-herefordshire
    coxon/williamson/kay/weaver-glossop/stockport/walker-gorton

  • #2
    what exactly is the reference?
    ~ with love from Little Nell~
    Chowns, Dunt, Emms, Mealing, Purvey & Smoothy

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    • #3
      As Nell says, it needs some context.
      Uncle John - Passed away March 2020

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      • #4
        The explanation's a bit obscure, but it appears to mean "Mr.".

        CPRdb Instructions

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        • #5
          Blimey - only a computer programmer could have come up with such a complicated set of instructions for transcribers.
          Uncle John - Passed away March 2020

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          • #6
            That site's useful, but programmed by a sadist.

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            • #7
              Ah, I know something about this site!

              I utterly hate it and like the rest of you, thought it must have been programmed by sadists.

              However.....this work was done in the early 1970s, on a main frame computer with limited memory and capability, as part of a University experiment to see if such data could usefully be put on a computer.

              It required a lot of complicated programming and each bit had to be done separately. I don't really understand the technicalities, but the site is limited by 1970s capabilities.

              I now understand why it is so complicated...but I still hate it!

              OC

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              • #8
                Ah, that would explain it. You'd think they could update it somehow, but maybe it'd be too expensive.

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                • #9
                  I remember that BT had to have a whole army of programmers to work out how to move vast volumes of personnel data from one system to another when the original computers became obsolete.
                  Uncle John - Passed away March 2020

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                  • #10
                    Thank you all....OC...don`t be offended but we are SO ALIKE that you make me chuckle....anyway....I still don`t know his occupation....lol....allan:D
                    Allan ......... researching oakes/anyon/standish/collins/hartley/barker/collins-cheshire
                    oakes/tipping/ellis/jones/schacht/...garston, liverpool
                    adams-shropshire/roberts-welshpool
                    merrick/lewis/stringham/nicolls-herefordshire
                    coxon/williamson/kay/weaver-glossop/stockport/walker-gorton

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