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[Sue Mackay]

What was a hotman? I don't think he was a hitman :smile:. Or could it be hatman? He emigrated the following year as a domestic servant


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[wimsey]

footman with a weird F ?
(was he in a big household ?)

[Sue Mackay]

Now there's a thought! I had been influenced by the capital H's of numerous surrounding Husbandman entries. If anyone has access to the Tunstall registers it is from the baptismal entry for Richard John Kent in 1819. But I think you may have cracked it wimsey!

[geneius]

Footman, particularly if you state he was in service in later life. Only industry if this was Tunstall Staffs would be in the China works of Spode & Wedgwood

[wimsey]

I wonder if he started off intending to write another word (e.g. Head footman ! ) - then changed his mind

[Sue Mackay]

Footman, particularly if you state he was in service in later life. Only industry if this was Tunstall Staffs would be in the China works of Spode & Wedgwood

It was Tunstall, Lancashire but I still think footman is right. Maybe the vicar was so used to writing Husbandman (most of the surrounding entries) that he started an H and changed midstream :wink5: Thanks both.

[geneius]

Just thought you would like the entry on Lancs OPC

Baptism: 12 Aug 1819 St John the Baptist, Tunstall, Lancashire, England
Richard John Kent - Son of James Kent & Ellen
Abode: Tunstal
Occupation: Kotman
Baptised by: W.C.Wilson
Register: Baptisms 1813 - 1846, Page 18, Entry 143
Source: LDS Film 1517648

Marriage of parents does not give any clues
Marriage: 25 Jan 1819 St John the Baptist, Tunstall, Lancashire, England
James Kent - this Parish
Ellen Wilkinson - Spinster, the Parish of Melling
Witness: Edward Bell; Eliz. Robinson
Married by Banns by: William Carus Wilson, Vicar
Register: Marriages 1813 - 1837, Page 11, Entry 33
Source: LDS Film 1517648