Help reading very poor scan of 1871 census

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Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 0 Send Message	Mark	Report	23 Aug 2006 14:20
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 0 Send Message	Ta both - looks like he's my man then - I was hoping thats what it said - but I was actually having trouble finding him on the page! Though what he was doing up there (training I suppose) in the asme year that he got married!? Mark
Member Since: December 2003 Posts: 7,821 Send Message	Thelma	Report	23 Aug 2006 14:03
	ENGINE FITTER
Member Since: September 2004 Posts: 9,872 Send Message	Merry	Report	23 Aug 2006 14:02
	1871 says Engine Fitter. Merry
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 0 Send Message	Mark	Report	23 Aug 2006 13:58
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 0 Send Message	I'm looking at Henry Smith who was born Foleshill in abt 1849. In 1871 he seems to have been in Coppenhall Monks, Cheshire as a boarder. If he is the right one he was an engine driver (colliery) in 1891 back in Foleshill. In 1881 it looks like he is an engine filler?