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Glen TK
30-01-13, 20:57
White's Directory of Sheffield & Rotherham, 1901
37 Harcourt Road
Page John Goulson
?? merchant

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Glen TK
30-01-13, 21:02
Mmmm, 1901 census he is a draper so wonder if it is felt merchant?
kiterunner
30-01-13, 21:55
I can't think of anything else it could be.
Mary from Italy
30-01-13, 23:08
It's fent merchant, fents being what are nowadays called remnants.

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=pz2ORay2HWoC&pg=RA1-PA593&lpg=RA1-PA593&dq=%22fent+merchant%22&source=bl&ots=FF80th75--&sig=DEFSdhN5tCs7D-0FZmnorSafnuo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=mrUJUeLWHaiP4gTsxIHgAw&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22fent%20merchant%22&f=false
Glen TK
31-01-13, 09:25
It's fent merchant, fents being what are nowadays called remnants.

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=pz2ORay2HWoC&pg=RA1-PA593&lpg=RA1-PA593&dq=%22fent+merchant%22&source=bl&ots=FF80th75--&sig=DEFSdhN5tCs7D-0FZmnorSafnuo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=mrUJUeLWHaiP4gTsxIHgAw&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22fent%20merchant%22&f=false

Well you learn something everyday!
Nell
01-02-13, 16:38
What a shame we've lost that word. I like the sound of fents. Remnants sounds tattier somehow.
vallee
02-02-13, 22:16
this old occupations site is interesting

http://rmhh.co.uk/occup/f.html
Glen TK
03-02-13, 22:37
I've found a couple of news reports from the early 1900's quoting P J Goulson as a fent merchant, seems a hawker stole 40 yards of cloth from his shop and was given two months imprisonment with hard labour.