Glafs Joy??????

[SBSFamilyhistory]

I have found a John Lowe on the 1841 Census, However I cannot quite make out his occupation it looks like Glafs Joy....

The reference is

Folio: 43; Page: 13; Line: 14.

can anyone help me work it out.


thanks

Sue

[Peter Goodey]

Glass Toy Maker

Please remember to provide the full reference.

[ruthm]

is it glass toy something? there is a glass works manufacturer listed above him, maybe they made glass toys & John Lowe worked there?

i'm sure some one else will clarify things!

[Peter Goodey]

the full reference.

Which in this case is...

HO 107/1139/5 folio 43 page 13

The book number (5 in this case) is only needed for the 1841 census.

I perhaps should have explained above that "m" was the standard abbreviation in the 1841 census for "maker". This not to be confused with "M" for "manufacturer".

[SBSFamilyhistory]

Glass Toy Maker

Please remember to provide the full reference.

Thanks for finding this for me.

Sorry copied and pasted but not far enough, sorry!

[SBSFamilyhistory]

gosh this man got about a bit.

1841 married to Elizabeth lots of children

1851 married to Jemmima several more kids

1861 and 1871 shows as a lodger to a british subject born in Germany, "money in the bank"

his occupation on the last two census is retired GILT toy maker

[Geoffers]

Glass Toy Maker.

I now have this vision of a baby sucking a glass rattle........blood everywhere!!!

Sorry, my sick sense of humour

[SBSFamilyhistory]

I now have this vision of a baby sucking a glass rattle........blood everywhere!!!

Sorry, my sick sense of humour

no.....that image will take ages to leave my head.

I did think glass, apart from marbles was an odd medium for toys....

[SBSFamilyhistory]

is it glass toy something? there is a glass works manufacturer listed above him, maybe they made glass toys & John Lowe worked there?

i'm sure some one else will clarify things!

looked again the other man was manager at glassworks, but shows there was a glass factory locally.

[Geoffers]

Just out of interest - I don't suppose your John Lowe had migrated from Norfolk?????

I have a one-name study of LOW(E) in Norfolk

[SBSFamilyhistory]

sorry Geoffers, it would appear he was from Brum, his son John's children, all bar my Great Grandmother, Betsy, went to West Ham, London to live.

[Geoffers]

sorry Geoffers, it would appear he was from Brum.


Most inconsiderate of him ;)

[SBSFamilyhistory]

lol, my father side of the family come from the "best" of places...

Aston, and surrounding areas, Birkenhead, West Ham, Doncaster... ummm but then you go back a couple more generations and we are Cornish, French etc... so umm perhaps not so bad afterall.

[v.wells]

"I now have this vision of a baby sucking a glass rattle........blood everywhere!!!

Sorry, my sick sense of humour"

I agree. Sick but funny.