Dear readers May I once again thank all those very kind people who replied to my question regarding 'meanings of occupations'. I have another question now if I may - I appreciate this may be impossible to answer but I just have to ask - the fact that the person involved worked with leather may be of help or perhaps he just worked as a labourer at this point in time - who knows. In a newspaper article from the Philadelphia Inquirer 1897 "Wandered Around For Forty Years Patrick Donnelly's Return to Family After a Long Absence ........................ Soon he found himself in the neighborhood of Twenty-third and Filbert where he had lived, with his young wife, and earned a scanty living in the mills near by. Since he had seen her and his little ones he had changed from a young husband to a gray haired and gray whiskered old man. ....." My question therefore is what kind of mills would have been in the area mentioned above at that time ? Details of the district/ward number for this address around 1850/1860 would also be extremely useful. My thanks as always Eileen