Hello!
I am new here, only registered a few weeks ago and haven't posted yet, but now I have a problem and I wondered if anyone of you might be able to shed a light on this...
On the 1911 census Mary Ann Petterson in London, my husband's maternal great grandmother, writes of her son that he is 'a labourer at the assage department of the lead works in Rotherhithe'. 'Assage' is probably 'assuage' misspelled, but what does the whole thing mean? He was only 15 then.
I looked it up in the dictionary as I am actually Dutch speaking, but it means soften or relieve or something like that (as you all know), not anything to do with industry.
Does anyone know what the 'assage department' is?
I am new here, only registered a few weeks ago and haven't posted yet, but now I have a problem and I wondered if anyone of you might be able to shed a light on this...
On the 1911 census Mary Ann Petterson in London, my husband's maternal great grandmother, writes of her son that he is 'a labourer at the assage department of the lead works in Rotherhithe'. 'Assage' is probably 'assuage' misspelled, but what does the whole thing mean? He was only 15 then.
I looked it up in the dictionary as I am actually Dutch speaking, but it means soften or relieve or something like that (as you all know), not anything to do with industry.
Does anyone know what the 'assage department' is?
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