Hello All, Many thinks to all who offered help. I was almost convinced it had to do with sanitation of sorts......just goes to show you can think too much! Jeff put me on track first with the two wheeled carriage and Jen came up trumps ....also adding a bit of Iriish culture too. I passed on the whole cert. to Jen and this has taught me to pass on the whole documant and not part of. Find below...... I think this is the answer... and the last word is "owner" - the priest had written gingle man, and corrected it to gingle owner - so nothing to do with night soil collections - but you are right with the two wheeled carriage ! Also, it refers to Mr Beale, and not the new Mrs Beale because of the correction. Jingle or Gingle A covered two-wheeled car used in Cornwall, the south of Ireland, and in Australia. Oxford English Dictionary. and quote from James Joyce 1916: They drove in a jingle across Cork while it was still early morning and Stephen finished his sleep in a bedroom of the Victoria Hotel. - James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man "which also quotes other persons in a Cork Census as a Gingle Owners... " Many thanks all, Kevin.