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Can anyone help to decipher this handwriting please?

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99redballoonsgobyy · 11/10/2022 18:00

Just that really I'm currently doing so ancestry research this is from the 1921 census but I cannot quite make out his occupation. my initial thought was Apprentice Lawyer but surely it cannot be as first I've heard about about my grandfather a poor working class boy from a big inner city being an apprentice lawyer. He did go on to be a military man and a colour Sargent and warrant officer in the army though. Could it possibly say something else what do you people think. could the L be an S and say something totally different? Also can anybody make out the smudged address I have underlined? thanks in advance for any help.

Can anyone help to decipher this handwriting please?
Can anyone help to decipher this handwriting please?
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Pansypotter123 · 11/10/2022 19:57

There you go - Henry Street in Ancoats/Northern Quarter in Manchester today. Lots of new bars, restaurants etc in the area.

Can anyone help to decipher this handwriting please?
dontgosummer · 11/10/2022 20:13

I don't think it's an S
Look at the "Jobbing" above , it's the same J ?

99redballoonsgobyy · 11/10/2022 21:00

@maximist thank you, I think you've got it yes it was the ancoats area of Manchester so yes It must be sawyer. As for Henry Street I don't think Henry Street has ever been residential. I can make out the Henry but was wondering if it could be John Henry Street. Infact I'm not 100% sure but i think John Henry Street was what became the original coronation Street set be interesting if the lived there. Does it look like possibly John Henry Street? Thank you everyone else also for all your help.

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99redballoonsgobyy · 11/10/2022 21:04

Disappointingly it appears I was wrong about John Henry Street being the original corrie set but the studios was built on what was that area. now demolished and in media city.

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maximist · 11/10/2022 21:17

I was reading the smudged bit before Henry as a house number.

Looking at the nls site gives this old map - the buildings next to the pub (PH) look as though they could be houses?

Can anyone help to decipher this handwriting please?
maximist · 11/10/2022 21:48

Do you know the name of the person who signed the form? I can't quite make it out - might be worth finding him on the 1911 census in case he's at the same address.

geraniumsandsunshine · 11/10/2022 21:49

Layer, like brick layer

TerraNostra · 07/11/2022 15:30

Your mystery is solved above but I just wanted to come on to echo what someone else said - there would be no such thing as an "apprentice lawyer" because the old name for trainee solicitors was "articled clerks". I also doubt very much that the umbrella expression "lawyer" would have been used in the 1920s- people would have been described as either solicitors or barristers.

It's only in the last couple of years that there has been an "apprentice" route to qualifying as a solicitor actually.

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