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From: Charani <>
Subject: Re: [ENG-SHROP] Occupations
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:05:24 +0100
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Graham Cole wrote:
> Could anyone tell me if the two occupations are compatible please?
> Tailor and Butcher
> I've found someone who answers the description of an ancestor but is
> described variously as Tailor or butcher / auctioneer. It is not as though
> one replaces the other they seem to interchange. Butcher on census and
> tailor on marriage certificates of children. I had discounted them as two
> people but now I wonder.
> What are your views?

Who, what, when, where?

A tailor and a butcher are both skilled jobs that would have required
apprenticeships, so it's unlikely (IMO) that they could refer to the
same person but more details about the person in question would be
helpful.

Butcher and auctioneer are possible compatible jobs if he was
auctioning cattle, then butchering them.

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Charani (UK)
OPC for Walton, SOM
http://wsom-opc.org.uk

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