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Can anyone help decipher some handwriting? 2 years 2 months ago #88705

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Help with question 5 please.
Trade or calling.
Possibly Cutter as the 2nd word?
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Can anyone help decipher some handwriting? 2 years 2 months ago #88706

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Dave - It looks like top cutter. Top cutting is the removal of a layer or layers of earth prior to construction or other activity. Nowadays it's all done mechanically but back then it would have been seriously hard graft!

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Can anyone help decipher some handwriting? 2 years 2 months ago #88708

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It looks like "cork cutter" to me; an occupation I have previously seen on enlistment papers.
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Can anyone help decipher some handwriting? 2 years 2 months ago #88709

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I would go with "Top Cutter".

In the Glasgow press this job is advertised under "Shoe Trade".



Glasgow Evening Citizen, 1st April 1880

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Can anyone help decipher some handwriting? 2 years 2 weeks ago #89522

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Clarification please.

Scar top of head
Laceration?? / Lesions ?? near left side of abdomen.

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Can anyone help decipher some handwriting? 2 years 2 weeks ago #89523

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Scar top of head.
Linear scar left side of abdomen.
The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.
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