Can anyone decipher these words for me?

[PercyPigAndMe]

Please.

I can make out 'roadway' and I can make out 'unpaid domestic' but what are the second words from the top two lines? Obviously 'at school' is clear

Thank you!

Yup, quarrier, so he was not a quarryman, dgging stone, but probably more like a paver, laying them. When I learned cursive, lo these many years ago, we had inkwells and dip pens and were taught to make a capital Q that resembled a curly figure 2.

Goodness, it was practically Victorian and i'm not that old! But it was in the colonies.

Oh, I think BikeRunSki has got it. I found my great grandmother on the 1891 census and the writing was just that same copperplate. Her occupation was "Fancy Boxmaker" which took me ages to decipher and understand. She was a singe parent and I worked out she was doing piece work folding boxes for a department store or confectioner.

I read it as "roadway licences". Just an idea if the other suggestions don't fit

Oh I see it is a list of occupations ignore me

@AnnaSW1

L's are written differently to that letter if you look at how labourer is written further down. It's definitely a different letter.

It's definitely a Q My granny wrote her Qs like that; looks a bit like a 2 if you don't quite finish the circle off.

Double writing, that's how you wrote a Q.

I've got a theory about the top line, that it says Roadway Quassill .. short for Quassillarius a grandiose or oldy sounding term for a pedlar or merchant. So maybe could mean anything from street pedlar, market trader or travelling salesman.

@BikeRunSki

I think roadway quarrier. There were some massive open cast coal mines (quarries) in the NE, which would have needed permanent support staff to culprit the coal extraction, including people to cut roadways as the coal was advanced.

“Culprit” = “support”.