Help reading occupation please!

[Just Mandy]

OK - don't faint because I'm doing research!

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec/Default.aspx?htx=view&r=5538&dbid=7814&iid=YRKRG13_4187_4189-0890&fn=John%20R&ln=Sherwood&st=r&ssrc=&pid=26754739&a=1

Can anyone read the occupation of John Robert Sherwood?

Thanks

[Elaine ..Spain]

?? pulley shop

First letter of 1st word is a P, I think! It matches the P of Patrict Sweeney listed about half way down the page.
? Printer

[Just Mandy]

See - I like to start on something tricky

[Just Mandy]

And is he an IRON turner on here?

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec/?htx=view&r=5538&dbid=6598&iid=WRYRG12_3668_3670-0547&fn=John+R&ln=Sherwood&st=r&ssrc=&pid=3755209

[Elaine ..Spain]

The only thing I can think of is being involved with pulley blocks which were used in block printing.

[Just Mandy]

I think pulley shop is fine - why do they insist on those blinking great black strikes through words?!

[Elaine ..Spain]

They can be annoying at times!

[Darksecretz]

And is he an IRON turner on here?

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec/?...c=&pid=3755209

I'd say yes thats what it looks like, try googling "iron turner" and see what you get

[Darksecretz]

they would have used pulleys in the iron foundry? to move the crucibles about? or herking bars of iron?

[Just Mandy]

Yes - it certainly existed Julie

[Just Mandy]

How about George Branham's occupation?

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec/?htx=view&r=5538&dbid=6598&iid=WRYRG12_3668_3670-0547&fn=John+R&ln=Sherwood&st=r&ssrc=&pid=3755209

[Elaine ..Spain]

Scavengers Labourer

[Just Mandy]

Haha - what was that - the guy who pushed the rag-o-bone cart?

[Elaine ..Spain]

From the Old Occupations website

1) Scavenger - Street cleaner
2) Scavenger - also a child employed in a spinning mill to collect loose cotton lying about the floor under machinery

[Just Mandy]

Ah - so he could have been assisting the first - or doing the second maybe.

Thanks

[Uncle John]

?? pulley shop

First letter of 1st word is a P, I think! It matches the P of Patrict Sweeney listed about half way down the page.
? Printer

Plater looks more likely, though I can't think why they'd need a plater to make pulleys.

[Uncle John]

The only thing I can think of is being involved with pulley blocks which were used in block printing.

Pulley blocks and printers' blocks are chalk and cheese. I think he perhaps made the steel plates that formed the sides of metal pulley blocks.

[Uncle John]

Scavengers Labourer

Haha - what was that - the guy who pushed the rag-o-bone cart?

From the Old Occupations website

1) Scavenger - Street cleaner
2) Scavenger - also a child employed in a spinning mill to collect loose cotton lying about the floor under machinery

I think he was what might now be called a sweeper-up. There seem to have been a wide variety of factories and brickworks.

[Just Mandy]

Thanks UJ