Having now checked back to the 1891 census, RG/3829 folio 106, for the occupation of Charles Henry White, it says, Bessemer steel factory, but preceding Bessemer is another word that I cannot read, so once again, can anyone throw any light on it please? Carol, Sheffield

On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:42:20 -0000 "carol cooper" <[email protected]> wrote: Hello carol, > Having now checked back to the 1891 census, RG/3829 folio 106, for > the occupation of Charles Henry White, it says, Bessemer steel > factory, but preceding Bessemer is another word that I cannot read, > so once again, can anyone throw any light on it please? Carol, It's possibly Steel Worker. I'm sure about the Worker part, and fairly certain about the 'St' at the start. I can be confident about them because of comparisons with the occupations of other people written by this enumerator. It's just the middle few letters that cause me a problem. I can't find anything close elsewhere. However, In the 1901 (answering both your queries in one email), the word is 'Sculp'. It's been added by a clerk as one of the standardised occupations. You'll note the handwriting isn't the same as the enumerator's. There's a few in the area. It's short for Sculptor, which is not an entirely accurate description, but then, it's been applied to an Artist a page or two earlier. It could be accurate there, but not if the artist was a painter. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)rad never immediately apparent" Every single one of us Devil Inside - INXS