Help reading 1891 census please

[Muggins in Sussex]

RG12; Piece: 2822; Folio 65; Page 3 - http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?htx=view&r=5538&dbid=6598&iid=CHSRG12_2821_2823-0236&fn=Frank&ln=Webb&st=r&ssrc=pt_t45875_p-2138519541_kpgz0q3d32799&pid=3240135

Is Martha Webb a Chargrooman? :confused:

And her son, Frank's occupation is News Boy - but what is the word after that? Hawk??

Thanks

[kiterunner]

Charwoman.

Yes, Hawk, perhaps short for Hawker? It is written in by a different hand and will refer to which category they were counting him in when they did the statistics.

[Muggins in Sussex]

Thanks Kite :)

[Muggins in Sussex]

Charwoman.

Yes, Hawk, perhaps short for Hawker? It is written in by a different hand and will refer to which category they were counting him in when they did the statistics.

I'm probably being dim :d, but have been puzzling over this - where did the second person (the one doing the categorizing) get his/her information from? :confused:

[kiterunner]

They read what the enumerator had written for the occupation and then looked at the list of categories and worked out which category that occupation went in. I haven't found an 1891 list yet, but this is the 1911 list:
http://www.1911census.co.uk/content/default.aspx?127

[Muggins in Sussex]

Thanks again Kite - that is very interesting.

I wonder how they could work out that someone was a hawker :confused:

[kiterunner]

A news boy would be selling newspapers in the street, and a hawker is someone who sells things in the street.

[Muggins in Sussex]

Thanks Kite :)- It seems obvious when you put it like that:d
The person was later a newsagent, so presumably then owned his own business