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From: "P Tunstall" <>
Subject: Re: [UK-CENSUS-HELPERS] Docker (Decker)
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:35:09 +0100
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Did you sort out the intrigue Petra??!!

Pam
----- Original Message -----
From: "Petra Mitchinson" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 5:44 PM
Subject: Re: [UK-CENSUS-HELPERS] Docker (Decker)


> Hi again, Pam,
>
> Yes, you are entirely right, it says "the writer" in brackets. And he is
> called
> William DOCKER. There are quite a few people researching DOCKERs of Newby on
> the
> Wetmorland Rootsweb list, including this William, but there was no mention of
> him being a writer!
>
> Ancestry did not have the front page of the district to show who was the
> enumerator, but I assume you have that page on your CD?
>
> Very intriguing, this!
>
> Petra
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "P Tunstall" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 5:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [UK-CENSUS-HELPERS] Docker (Decker)
>
>
>> Hi Petra
>> 1861 Piece 3961 folio 89 page 11 4th name down, and to me it looks like the
>> writer but on checking it's not the enumerator if I'm wrong Petra let me know
>>
>> Pam
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>I could not find a William DOCKER or DECKER who was a writer in that time
>>>frame
>>> on Google.
>>>
>>> Could he have been the enumerator and felt he needed to point this out?
>>>
>>> How sure are you it actually says "the writer"? The only additions I can
>>> think
>>> of that people would write into the name column would be "the younger" or
>>> "the
>>> elder" or junior or senior.
>>>
>>> Intrigued,
>>>
>>> Petra
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "P Tunstall" <>
>>> To: <>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 3:46 PM
>>> Subject: [UK-CENSUS-HELPERS] Docker (Decker)
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Just transcribing a piece at the moment and the name is
>>>> William Docker (Decker) and in the same space is written "the writer" does
>>>> this
>>>> mean that he was a writer in 1861 and if so, does anyone what he wrote??
>>>>
>>>> Pam
>
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