Have a burial for a Richard Martin 20 Nov. 1726 at Tavistock. However, there is something else after "Martin" which is difficult to read. Thought it might be something like tanner but the vicar doesn't give occupations in his register, only indicates if the individual is a "child" or such as "widow" and it isn't either of those. Anyone have any ideas what the word might be?
David
Re: Richard Martin
Posted by Chris Lang on 25/8/2024, 4:33 pm, in reply to "Richard Martin"
Professions do not seem to be recorded at all so I wonder if the full name of the person is actually Richard Martin Tannor or Tanner
Re: Richard Martin
Posted by Sally Topliss on 13/8/2024, 11:28 am, in reply to "Richard Martin"
It certainly looks like Tanner, and it also starts with a capital letter, unlike widow etc. As a matter of interest there is a Newspaper article in 1848 for a Richard Martin, Tavistock, Tanner, declared bankrupt. Sally
Re: Richard Martin
Posted by David Murrian on 13/8/2024, 1:50 pm, in reply to "Re: Richard Martin"
Thank you for your reply Sally. However the one you have found couldn't have been a Richard I was looking into. The individual I was looking into had been baptised in 1724 (and certainly not simply a very late baptism) and if the burial had been him, I would have expected the Vicar to have noted him as being a child, as he did in other cases in his Register. Although the word clearly isn't "child", I just wondered what it might have indicated. Out of interest I will see if I can find anything about the one you found some 120 or so years later in 1848, as I know of a Richard in the area about that time (my 2x gg father), but he wasn't born until 1834 so too young to be bankrupt when he was only 14 and, in any event, as far as I am aware, he never followed the trade of being a Tanner, at any time.
