In the 1891 census my grgrandfather is shown as a 'marine fireman', but written above these two words is added 'seas'. There is also another entry like this on the same page. Is this to indicate they travel 'overseas' instead of being a fisherman or coastal sailor, or possibly sailing that day. Any ideas please. Peter

PETER ATKINSON <atkinson@supertrout.fsnet.co.uk> wrote: > In the 1891 census my grgrandfather is shown as a 'marine fireman', > but written above these two words is added 'seas'. There is also another entry like this on the same page. > Is this to indicate they travel 'overseas' instead of being a fisherman or coastal sailor, or possibly sailing that day. > Any ideas please. Hi Peter After the Census books had been filled in they were subject to some kind of statistical analysis, part of which was a count of how many people were engaged in particular types of work. Many of the categories used were broader than the ones which the enumerators had written in, and so for some people you find that a more general term has been inserted later in a different hand. I would guess that this is the case here. Arthur Kennedy