Can anyone help decipher a job from the 1901 census

[winniesanderson]

This chap was my third great grand uncle. He was a tin miner and later a herbalist. Very interested in what being a herbalist would entail in the early 1900's!

But can anyone decipher what job he was doing inbetween? Looks like 'something' agent to me?

If it helps, he was from Cornwall - lots of mining related jobs in my family tree!

Thank you

Assurance

Looks like ‘insurance’ to me

It looks like insurance agent. They’ve crossed out the first three letters and inserted “ins”.

Insurance.

Assurance agent

So life insurance sales
As your are guaranteed to die and there will be a payout

Insurance agent. Would he have been going door to door selling policies and collecting the money?

Insurance agent, the “ins” is inserted above, as a correction.

Some sort of insurance sales. It does look like assurance, with the ass- crossed out and ins- added.

Agree with others. Insuance agent.

Wow thank you so much for all the replies that's really helpful. I can see it now. Sounds like he had quite a variety of jobs!

Thank you 😊

I would also go with ‘Insurance agent’. :)