Help needed to decipher

[gibbo]

I need some help with this please.

The first column is titled "calling" and im unable to read his occupation.
Also the next column is titled "Native place and country" I can make out Wiltshire but not the word before it. Can someone help please?

 

[leefer]

http://lastnames.myheritage.com/last-name/Wetherington

Hi Gibbo....Wetherington,or Witherington Wilts i reckon.....strange though because there isn't a place as such any more but there are places lake Witherington Lane or Hill because it is old English for a Copse or group of trees.

If anyone can find the actual place in Wilts let me know

 

[gibbo]

Thank you Lee. Got that from a passenger list thinking i had it made and then couldnt read the jolly thing

Maybe might be able to pick him up on a census and see what his place of birth is on that. Off to the census forum now i am :biggrin:

 

[leefer]

Gibbo.....i reckon the occupation is an Excavator..the third letter looks like a d but that is coming down from the word above and it is a c...could be a posh word for a labouring digging trenches etc...not sure on your dates but an excavator today would use a JCB or big digger to move land.

Or a slight chance an excavator could be someone digging up old relics etc...similar to an archeoligist.

 

[gibbo]

Thanks again Lee. That seems better than what i was thinking it looked like. It looked like executioner to me :2fun::2fun: I need glasses tho

 

[leefer]

He did work as an executioner for a while but was given the chop:biggrin:

 

[gibbo]

He did work as an executioner for a while but was given the chop:biggrin:

And his surname was Axford :biggrin: Did you get that? AXford as in axe you chop with :biggrin:

 

[leefer]

And his surname was Axford :biggrin: Did you get that? AXford as in axe you chop with :biggrin:

....i get it,there is a place called Axe and another called Axeminster.....all named after the River Axe in Devon.

Maybe they called the River the Axe because it is prone to getting choppy


Edit....oh and i reckon its Tytherington not Witherington.

 

[p.risboy]

I go with Lee.....excavator.

 

[leefer]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Lightfoot

Very interesting.......any link do you reckon?

 

[gibbo]

Not sure yet Lee. Was reading about that before. Interesting tho.

 

[leefer]

Very interesting....looked up on the Charters Towers link and saw a picture of his grave there.

 

[DaveHam9]

Wetherington
English: habitational name from a place in Wiltshire called Witherington, from Old English wīðign ‘willow copse’ (which is not recorded independently) + tūn ‘settlement’, although the spellings with -r- only appear in the 17th century.

Excavator Does not say JCB operator :2fun:

 

[gibbo]

Very interesting....looked up on the Charters Towers link and saw a picture of his grave there.

I just got a copy of Isaac's burial record and he died from APOPLEXY.
From what i can find i think it was a stroke

 

[leefer]

My cat has no chance then:2fun: