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Member Since: March 2003 Posts: 200 Send Message	Gosport	Report	5 Nov 2003 05:31
Member Since: March 2003 Posts: 200 Send Message	Any one know what a Brickis Boy is, on census 1881 occupation of a 15 year old boy
Member Since: January 0001 Posts: 0 Send Message	Unknown	Report	5 Nov 2003 06:44
Member Since: January 0001 Posts: 0 Send Message	Hi Cherryl, It sounds like he might have been the assistant to a brick layer! Regards Margaret
Member Since: March 2003 Posts: 200 Send Message	Gosport	Report	5 Nov 2003 18:10
Member Since: March 2003 Posts: 200 Send Message	Thanks Margaret, you could be right. Cherryl
Member Since: November 2002 Posts: 308 Send Message	Penny	Report	5 Nov 2003 19:00
	Must be a what we would call a Brickies labourer today. My dad is a retired bricklayer and they always referred to bricklayers on site as 'brickies' Carpenters 'chippies' etc! Dad always 'employed' a young lad as a labourer. Penny
Member Since: November 2002 Posts: 315 Send Message	Katie	Report	5 Nov 2003 20:44
	I agree with Penny - my ancestors worked in the Eastney Brickfields in Hampshire and we always refer to the bricklayers as 'brickies!' Remembering that many people were only barely literate in those days 'brickis' could just be someones attempt at spelling 'brickies.' Good Luck! -Kat