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Could Someone do a check on 1851 census

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Ceefer

Ceefer Report 26 Mar 2008 18:20

Hawker or huckster or coster is a peddler selling matches, laces etc in the street.
Look up on google for " Victorian Occupations" discription of their jobs in 1891.

GillfromStaffs

GillfromStaffs Report 26 Mar 2008 17:40

Yes Alice I'v just taken another look and I think you are all right, "Huckster" it is then.
Thank you one and all.
Gill

Researching:
Proctor Audley & S-O-T, Forrester,Hanley, Shenton, Hanley, Moreton, Madeley. All in Staffordshire

GillfromStaffs

GillfromStaffs Report 26 Mar 2008 17:27

Thank's Yvonne, so that's two votes for Huckster, all I can make out is the (ter) at the end.
Gill

Researching:
Proctor Audley & S-O-T, Forrester,Hanley, Shenton, Hanley, Moreton, Madeley. All in Staffordshire

GillfromStaffs

GillfromStaffs Report 26 Mar 2008 17:22

Thank's Mike, that's a new one on me, I'v heard of Hawker, Itinerant, yes that would make sense. lol I will have to go and take another look.
Gill

Researching:
Proctor Audley & S-O-T, Forrester,Hanley, Shenton, Hanley, Moreton, Madeley. All in Staffordshire

Yvonne Osborne

Yvonne Osborne Report 26 Mar 2008 17:18

HI GILL, I would say that it says "huckster"(with an ornate loop to the "h" at the start).
I got a definition from www.census1891.com/occupations ,this is from the 1891 London census, "a seller of small wares" or "a street seller of ale".
Regards Yvonne.

Mike

Mike Report 26 Mar 2008 17:16

Not sure but it could say HUCKSTER

Hawker / Huckster Peddler or street seller. Itinerant street dealer who carried his wares with him. Often used as a term of abuse

GillfromStaffs

GillfromStaffs Report 26 Mar 2008 17:08

Thank's Alice, but I havn't a clue, son & I have been looking at it for abt 30mins, he couldn'r read it either and he's got younger eyes than me.
Gill

Researching:
Proctor Audley & S-O-T, Forrester,Hanley, Shenton, Hanley, Moreton, Madeley. All in Staffordshire

GillfromStaffs

GillfromStaffs Report 26 Mar 2008 16:52

for me please. Richard Shenton age 42 born Stoke on Trent Staffs. I can't read his employment.
Thank's Gill
(living in S-O-T)

Researching:
Proctor Audley & S-O-T, Forrester,Hanley, Shenton, Hanley, Moreton, Madeley. All in Staffordshire