1891 Census

Sorry Anniebach..cant seem to access record anywhere without costing money!
A marine fireman on steam vessels is another name for a stoker I believe.
I dont know if checking on the Seamans Register would help you with details..??

Very difficult to decipher Annie but DH and I think it may be Seas.

It looks as if it may have been added later as the handwriting is different from the main entry.

Thank you x

It is different writing, and this writing has been added to other occupations further down the list. An i has been dotted , so frustrating

Will check the seamans register x

The e does look as if it could be an i annie although the same word is written several times in front of subsequent occupations entries and the second letter is definitely an e.
Most frustrating!

I’ll give it a go

I think it says ‘seas’ and yes he was an inmate.

Annie that has been added in a different hand probably later. If you look lower down it is all attached to seamen or mariners. There’s a ‘harb’ also suggesting that person might have worked the harbour and a couple that seem to suggest retired.

I think someone is trying to classify the inmates of the Liverpool Workhouse into categories depending on their ‘occupation’.

Seems it is ‘sea’ , can’t be my William , 1971 a tailor , possibly 1881 a sail maker and then 1891 on a ship as a fireman, yet he would only be 56 . In 1881 he was in lodgings with two firemen , so perhaps. Why couldn’t he have stayed on Anglesey . Oh I so want to find where he was buried, I know the burial places of his six brothers and two sisters . Well i will keep looking .

Annie was your William born in Gwalchmai, Anglesey?

Working on my tree at the moment so can put a fresh pair of eyes on yours.

Yes cavewoman i transcribed for Anglesey registrars and no William Thomas born in Caemas. I thought it was an error and place of birth might have been Gwalchmai. Are you ‘doing’ Anglesey ?

No luck Annie
Have searched for hours but can only confirm that last positive recording was 1871 when William was in Caernarvonshire.
The 1881 is a possibility for him (sailmaker) Did you notice that the Landlady was from Anglesey? She might be worth looking into.
What a pity that there were so many William Thomas born in the same place around the same time.
Will keep on looking as I'm 'doing' Wales for OH.
I'm

cavewoman how kind of you, thank you.

Yes I found William up to 1871 , he had moved from Gwalchmai to Ebineezer in Caernarfonshire. I found the sail maker with the landlady from Anglesey and two other lodgers from Caernarfon . This William’s Father and three nephews were also William. Will look for the landlady, another Mary (groan) on Anglesey, fortunately I have all the death records so fingers crossed. Good luck with ‘doing Wales’ ,

I agree that it is probably 'seas'.

FIREMAN inspected for, and removed explosive gasses underground in mining or stoked the boilers on ships and locomotives
www.worldthroughthelens.com/family-history/old-occupations.php

It sounds as if he was a ship's stoker.

1871 Census has a William Thomas on twice; he is a lodger/boarder at the home of Catherine and Thomas Williams (stoker) in Toxteth. His occupation is listed as 'engineer'. Age 35. Born Anglesea. That could be the same William Thomas as the Fireman/stoker in 1891.
He may or may not be yours.

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1881 Census:

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Same age, born Anglesea and yes, it has his occupation as sailmaker, but the man listed below is a 'fireman'.
There are often discrepancies either with transcriptions or sometimes with rather inaccurate census taking at the time.

Looking for a death of a William Thomas could be looking for a needle in a haystack - so many Welsh people moved to Liverpool. However, if he was born in 1835, moved to Liverpool, was on the 1891 census but can't be found on 1901 census:
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Jalima you got it, the William in the workhouse isn’t my William . The William in the workhouse was in ?Liverpool when my William was still in Wales .

Looking for Welsh ancestors is not easy!!

It certaintly isn’t Jalima the biggest problems are when ancestors moved to England,