I believe that you the correct word as I have seen it many, many times before. I believe that it refers to a person who carries things around for others, i.e. a hauler. Another interesting occupation I have seen around Nottingham is dataler . This is a person who works in the niches in the sides of the walls of the coal mines, making the niches, and gleaning coal that might fall out of the cars as they come down the track. A very dangerous occupation unless one gets into the niche in time. Steve Kelsey ----- Original Message ----- From: Ron O'Neill Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 2:16 PM To: ENG-HEREFORD-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [HEF] occupation - hallier the occupation of the father of one of the families I was > researching is given as Hallier. > The staff at the LRO agreed that this did appear to be the correct word, > and it occurred in more than one entry. > A dictionary of "old trades and occupations" gave no clues, nor did a > dialect reference book. Hi Kate. Could it have been Hellier?? in which case, HELLIER, A slater or tiler of roofs. From our book Old Occupations and their meanings. Kind regards, Ron O'Neill www.genealogyprinters.com ==== ENG-HEREFORD Mailing List ==== . ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237