Hi Ninaninatoo wrote:Thanks for the added interest in this post. Much appreciated.
David, the 'jeweller' in question, James McCormi(a)ck had numerous occupations according to his children's birth and marriage certificates (I have only found him with his family on the 1861 census but he is elsewhere on all the others - haven't been able to trace him on any of them yet). One occupation was "jewellery hawker", and he also was a pottery hawker. So I am wondering if he made the jewellery himself or sold it for someone else, as was usual for hawkers, wasn't it? And I am thinking that the varying occupations ( others include commercial traveller, Draper's porter and slater's labourer) may have been because he wasn't skilled in any one area....would that be a correct assumption?
Nina
Sounds like he was a "market trader" in present day terms, dealing in anything and everything that might produce a profit
, supported by the use of "hawker" in several records............. David