Help reading occupatin please

[samesizedfeet]

I can't work out the occupation for James Renew c1829


1861 - RG9; Piece: 247; Folio: 71; Page: 22
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec/?htx=view&r=5538&dbid=8767&iid=MDXRG9_245_249-0561&fn=Letitia+E&ln=Renew&st=d&ssrc=&pid=5593823

1901 - RG13; Piece: 1600; Folio: 61; Page: 32
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec/?htx=view&r=5538&dbid=7814&iid=ESSRG13_1599_1601-0437&fn=James+C&ln=Renew&st=d&ssrc=&pid=9140761


The 1901 is a bit clearer than the 1881 but I still can't figure out what it's meant to be.

Not found him yet in 1891 - will add link up if I do

Thanks for looking

Zoe

[Phoenix]

You like to pick a challenge!

1861

Labourer in Essex Brickworks?

[Margaret in Burton]

The 1901 has India scrawled across it.

I'm thinking india rubber.

When my daughter was doing textiles for GCSE she did screen printing and had to use something she called "Gutter" (sp) to stop the colours running together.

I could be well off the mark, off to google

[Phoenix]

No, my first, unwritten! thought was correct.

It's Gutta Percha

[samesizedfeet]

GUtta Percha????!!!

*runs off to google*



Thank you all

[Margaret in Burton]

Think I'm on the right track.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutta-percha

Gutta Percha

[samesizedfeet]

Perfect!!! there's was Gutta Percha manufacturing company just round the corner from him in Silvertown

[samesizedfeet]

Here we go: http://www.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_1233861/india-rubber-gutta-percha-and-telegraph-works-company-factory-silvertown-london-1887.html

[Margaret in Burton]

1861 Labourer in Gutta Percha Works

1901 Retired Gutta Percha Warehouseman (India scrawled across it)

[Uncle John]

Gutta Percha was used to insulate early electric and telegraph cables.