Thank you for that Stan. Which Directory is it that you're looking at? In fact, several years ago, it was you who shed light on the "sword cane" I have, explaining its use by customs officials. Unfortunately, the certainty of Samuel Hayes being a tailor, leaves me in a further quandary about this cane that is dated 1849 and has his name and HM Customs on it. Oh well, back to the records. There will be an answer to this mystery somewhere. Thank you again Stan. Kind regards ... Ralph > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 03:39:58 EDT > From: Stanmapstone@aol.com > Subject: [DUR-NBL] Samuel Hayes > To: dur-nbl@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <cd9.dfcb852.333e18ce@aol.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > In a message dated 29/03/2007 16:29:16 GMT Daylight Time, crhayes@andlau.com > writes: > I have had one email from a subscriber who suggested that his > occupation might be 'sailor' but, on checking the three originals I have > access to, the word is clearly 'tailor'. > ____________________________________________________________________ > Hi Ralph, > He is listed in the 1851 Directory as a Tailor, always worth double checking > (:- )) > > Regards Stan Mapstone