Help with occupation 1861 census

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 11:36 am

If it was fisherman's there would be a very prominent H. It's Steam Boat Fireman's Wife i.e. the man who tends the fire under the boiler.

Alan.

annie1 · Post by **annie1** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 11:46 am

Hi all,

Thank you for this version Andrew, that must be it Alan, Steam Boat Fireman's wife, when he died he was a fireman in a factory, I wondered why he had that type of job, all along I thought he was at sea.
Thank you Susan and Archiver, Marischal Street, a new one for me.
I had better go and find him now!

Thanks very much
Ann

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 11:52 am

……….. unless the enumerator drops his aitches.

Alan

Post by **paddyscar** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 4:16 pm

Hi Ann:

I agree with Currie on Steamboat Fireman's Wife He may well have been at sea for a good part of his life, opting to stay closer to home when an opportunity to do the same type of work came along.

Frances

annie1 · Post by **annie1** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 8:16 pm

Hi Frances,

It does look likely, that this was his occupation, now a new difficulty, finding him if he was at sea!! I like a challenge, just as well after today

Thanks again for your help.

Ann

Post by **Anne H** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 8:45 pm

Hi Annie,

On the 1871 census on Ancestry, there is a Joseph Brown, 37, born Laurencekirk, Kincardine. He's a mate on a vessel with a load of others and enumerated in Arbroath...could it be your Joseph?

Regards,
Anne H

annie1 · Post by **annie1** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 12:19 am

Hi Anne,

I have seen this Joseph and followed him for a bit as the age was quite near, as I am guessing from the 1841 census, no OPR, but it's not the right one, I wish it was though

Mine was born and in Aberdeen.

Thanks
Ann