Occupation / deciphering help

[Toofaroutallmylife]

What do you think the circled occupation says? It looks like “sadler”, but it’s from 1920, which seems less likely and would be misspelled. Also, I thought I’d found him in the 1911 census where he was a muffin and pikelet baker, so I may be back to square one!

Hmm. If you look at the occupation above - Yarn Dyer - the final "r" is quite different as is the final "r" in Manchester at the top.

The last letter looks more like the way the writer forms their "e" so could be ending oe or ee. But that doesn't help, really, does it?

rmhh.co.uk/occup/s.html - list of old occupations starting with S.

Saddlers make and repair all sorts of leather goods (there is a Sadler on The Repair Shop) so it’s quite a normal occupation for that time. Many horses around with harness too. More things would be locally made from leather and thinks would be repaired more. I’m fairly sure there was a Sadler in the village I grew up in in the 60’s.

Saddler. Of which there were plenty in the 1920s.

And the one above is yarn dyer (ie wool dyer).

Dodgy handwriting is very common in family history research unfortunately.

Perhaps the fact that 'Sadler' with one L is a not-too uncommon surname ( and there's Sadlers Wells) makes it more likely for 'saddler' to be misspelled?

Thanks @RaspberryCoulis - that list was just the sort of thing I was looking for.

I thought I’d “found” him in various census returns, but I’m very suspicious of a sudden career change from baker at 55 (And the last 20 years before that) to a saddler at 64!

I think I’ll just need to order his daughter’s birth certificate to check my assumptions

Is the address the same? You are right to be cautious - you could understand someone changing occupations from being a messenger boy at the age of 14 in 1871 to a plumber at the age of 24 in 1881. But later in life I'd say it was less likely.

Dodgy handwriting and bad spelling is a common feature of census returns.

I've had someone go from railway porter to innkeeper to tea dealer, so they did chop and change quite a lot.

What are the occupations of other family members?