Occupation

[maggie_4_7]

Perhaps someone could help to decipher this occupation please, thank you.

[Merry]

Teacher? Are there other Ts on the page to compare with? Or can you find him on a different record with an occupation?

[maggie_4_7]

No that's the problem I can't find him that is the 1841 Scottish Census. But his grandfather was a Lighthouse Keeper, his father was a Master Mariner, his sisters are straw hat makers. Just can't see him becoming a teacher he is 20 Years old on that census he was born 1821 so quite young as well.

I don't know what would you need to become a teacher at that time?

No other capital Ts on page.

[Merry]

What happened to him after 1841?

[Merry]

Sorry, I misread what you said as "I can't find him on the 1841 census" :o

[Olde Crone]

I think it does say teacher and I wonder if it is being used in the Scottish religious sense? Meaning he taught the scriptures, rather than being a schoolmaster, which is what I think a school teacher might be called then. Phew.

OC

[kiterunner]

If his age is shown as 20 on the 1841 census it just means age 20-24, so maybe he was 24?

[maggie_4_7]

Sorry, I misread what you said as "I can't find him on the 1841 census" :o

It's the Scottish census, took me a while to find the family they are mixed up with another household.

http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1841Scotland&h=2298326&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt&ssrc=pt_t77635655_p40369951329_kpidz0q3d4036995132 9z0q26pgz0q3d32768z0q26pgplz0q3dpid

[maggie_4_7]

If his age is shown as 20 on the 1841 census it just means age 20-24, so maybe he was 24?

I have his birth date from his baptism 6th June 1821 it is the 20th May 1821 in Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland.

His mother Lilias was born in Orkney. The families on Orkney are very closely connected and do you think I can untangle most of them.... No

[maggie_4_7]

I think it does say teacher and I wonder if it is being used in the Scottish religious sense? Meaning he taught the scriptures, rather than being a schoolmaster, which is what I think a school teacher might be called then. Phew.

OC

I suppose that's possible and then he went on to another occupation.

Most of this family and the families they married into are all connected to the sea and ships.

Lighthouse Keepers, Shipwrights, Iron Turners, Seamen, Master Mariners, Firemen at Anchor SS Line, Steam Ship Stokers, Marine Engineers, Engine Fitters you name an occupation to do with ships and this and the connected families have done it :D :D

But I suppose it was the area for ship building in those days.

[kiterunner]

According to FMP, there are 540 people on the 1841 census with age 20-24 and occupation Teacher, and 176 in that age range with occupation beginning with School (i.e. Schoolmaster, Schoolmistress, etc). I'm not sure whether that is just for Scotland.

[Shona]

He may have been a pupil-teacher. I've come across pupil-teachers in Scotland as young as 13 and 14. Bright pupils of good moral character were chosen to help teach the younger children. It was like an apprenticeship. They did it for about five years. Some went on the become qualified teachers; others changed occupation. It seems to have been common in schools run by the Scottish Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge.

[maggie_4_7]

oh okay.

Thanks Kiterunner and Shona.

I expect he went on to work in the Ship Building industry, trying to find him is proving difficult.