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Member Since: December 2006 Posts: 198 Send Message	CuriousFish	Report	20 Jan 2012 21:37
	I cannot read he occupation of Elizabeth james, in teh 1871 census below is the link tt the page on ancestry and she is on line 18. Can someone decipher this for me please. http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?htx=view&r=5538&dbid=7619&iid=STSRG10_2843_2846-0535&fn=Emma&ln=James&st=r&ssrc=gr_t27953339_p12209478531_ktidz0q3d27953339z0q26pidz0q3d12209478531z0q26hidz0q3d41440605368z0q26dbidz0q3d7619z0q26rpidz0q3d6694763z0q26ssrcz0q3dgrz0q26pgz0q3d32799z0q252c32842z0q26pgPLz0q3dtidz0q257cpidz0q257chidz0q257cdbidz0q257crpidz0q257cssrcz0q26pgPSz0q3d12209478531_h41440605368&pid=6694763
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 26,665 Send Message	Gwyn in Kent	Report	20 Jan 2012 21:45
	The younger one is a scholar. The older one is an annuitant...(.ie. receives modest income from a pension or similar ) Gwyn
Member Since: December 2006 Posts: 198 Send Message	CuriousFish	Report	20 Jan 2012 22:22
	Ah, sound of penny droping, thank you so much. :-)