Looks like "snob"? Help please!

[Debbss]

Hello
Can I please have your opinions as to this trade.

It looks as though it says snob!
If so -what does it mean?
Many thanks

Debbss

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?htx=view&r=5538&dbid=8860&iid=MDXHO107_1515_1515-0672&fn=Benjamin&ln=Williams&st=r&ssrc=pt_t33310265_p19722768006_kpgz0q3d32799_m1&pid=2747252

[r642611]

I always thought it had something to do with shoe-making. Don't ask me where I got that from!

Bev

[Kelly]

The website "Old occupation" has Snobscat/snob and the occupation is a shoe repairer.

[Debbss]

Thats brilliant thank you

[Vivienne]

My parents always called the shoe repairer the snob!

[Debbss]

I've never heard it before -you learn something new every day ;)

[kylejustin]

wow that is so fascinating.

[Guy]

It's the 18th century nickname for a cobbler's apprentice or sometimes a cobbler.
The Royal Navy commonly used that expression for shoe-repairers up until the early 1960s.
Cheers
Guy