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Desperate Housewife ♥

Desperate Housewife ♥ Report 17 Sep 2008 13:58

Thank you LD, this is interesting. This foundry is in the area where James Davies' father lived so there is a connection. I will have a good read.

Karen x

LD

LD Report 17 Sep 2008 13:50

This may be of interest to you

http://www.n-le-w.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=37&Itemid=27

Researching:
Evans, Radnorshire, Herefordshire,Cheshire. Jones, Breconshire. Lewis, Herefordshire.

Desperate Housewife ♥

Desperate Housewife ♥ Report 17 Sep 2008 13:46

Thank you all, now I can see it quite clearly now I've been told what it is.

Karen x

Desperate Housewife ♥

Desperate Housewife ♥ Report 17 Sep 2008 13:43

Oooh LD you could be right there, do you think the word scribbled above is IRON then?

On the marriage cert it looks like coat or coar maker.

Karen

MargaretM

MargaretM Report 17 Sep 2008 13:42

I agree it's "foundry chain maker"

Researching:
Great grandmother Dorothy Bean nee Abbott (1858-1908)

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}((((*> Jeanette The Haddock <*)))){ Report 17 Sep 2008 13:42

I also think it says Foundry Chain Maker

Desperate Housewife ♥

Desperate Housewife ♥ Report 17 Sep 2008 13:41

Hi Christine,

Thanks, is that the same as the 1901 census online because the only James Davies from Lancashire on there wasn't mine.......typical!

As for e-mailing you the mariage cert can I get back to you later cause I,m unsure how to use the scanner and would need to wait for OH.....I know I'm hopeless lol.

Karen x

LD

LD Report 17 Sep 2008 13:39

It looks like Foundary Chain Maker

Researching:
Evans, Radnorshire, Herefordshire,Cheshire. Jones, Breconshire. Lewis, Herefordshire.

Desperate Housewife ♥

Desperate Housewife ♥ Report 17 Sep 2008 13:27

Could someone please help me decipher the occupation of my Great grandfather in the 1901 census.

RG 13 / 3757 page 24.

James Davies is the first one on the page, his father and grandfather were both waggon makers for the railways if this helps. I have his marriage cert also but cannot make out his occupation on that either.

Thank you,

Karen x