Can you read this?

[dottyaboutstripes]

This is a birth record which I believe is my great grandmother and here’s her father’s profession. I think it says coast guard? Is there something else it could be? Thanks for looking 😊

I immediately read that as coast guard!

Looks like coast guard to me too. Does that fit with what you know?

Did they live by the coast?

I agree, coast guard. Do you have an address? If you can identify it as coastguard cottages, that would confirm it.

No address apart from town and I know nothing about them but it’s on the coast so it must be. Her name is recorded incorrectly though as Ellen rather than Helen but it’s definitely the right people

Agreed, definitely coast guard

At a push court guard but it does look more like coast

Her name is recorded incorrectly though as Ellen rather than Helen.

I had a relative who was variously recorded as Eleanor, Nellie and Helena at different times. She was registered as Eleanor, was Nellie in some censuses as a child, then as an adult in 1911, 1921 and 1939 opted for Helena.

Your Ellen/Helen may have done the same, Or possibly whoever gave her name to the registrar had trouble with the letter H!