Help needed - can't understand writing on Marriage Cert

[dlh1]

Can someone help me identify the occupation of Michael Mcdonough on this marriage certificate below:

[HOLLY]

Hello - the image stops half way through Michaels name

[jan44]

It looks like it says Butcher's porter.

Jan

[Katie]

I can confirm it looks like Butchers Porter

[dlh1]

Thanks for your help. I thought it was Butcher's something. I was also wondering if anyone can help me find Michael Mcdonough on a census. He was born around 1853 I believe but I can't find him. I only seem to be able to find michael mcdonough who was a labourer.

Thanks again,

[dickiesam]

Definitely Butcher's porter. Would have been skilled at carrying sides of beef, possibly frozen, on his shoulder all day! My dad did just that in the 1930s at Stanley Abbatoir! I didn't have a dummy to suck or a teething ring, just a lump of fillet steak!:lol:

Dickiesam

[dlh1]

I've just come across this:
http://forums.dailypost.co.uk/viewtopic ... 7&t=124751

Could it be that he worked as a Butcher's Porter on the docks? It's a possibility. I'm sure one of his census records said dock labourer. So perhaps a butcher's porter was classed as a dock labourer if they worked around the docks.

[jan44]

I checked the address from marriage cert on the 1901 (on cd) but there was no McDonough living at 21 Blackfield Street.

Will have a look and see if I can find anything.

Jan

[dlh1]

Thomas McDonough and Mary Ann Grayson were living on back bond street street in 1901 with their 6month old daughter elizabeth Mcdonough. I'm not sure about Michael Mcdonough. I do know that his wife was called Ellen.

[jan44]

I could only find this one in 1891

7 Blandford Street Liverpool

Michael McDonough 38 seaman
Ellen wife 36
Thomas 9
Mick 8
Dan 2

All born Liverpool

Jan

[dickiesam]

There's a Michael McD candidate here in 1891 with a son Thomas.

MCDONAGH, Michael - Head - Married - 34 - Warehouse Porter - Scotland.
MCDONAGH, Mary A - Wife - 32 - Liverpool.
MCDONAGH, John - Son - 13 - Scholar - Liverpool.
MCDONAGH, Thomas - Son 11 - Scholar - Liverpool.
MCDONAGH, Theresa - Dtr - 7 - Scholar - Liverpool.
MCDONAGH, Joseph - Son - 5 - Scholar - Liverpool.
MCDONAGH, Mary A - Dtr - 2 - Liverpool.
MCDONAGH, Michael - Son - 0 (1M) - Liverpool.
MCDONAGH, Thomas - Father - Widower - 70 - Ship's Carpenter - Ireland.

RG12 / Piece:2904 / Folio:16 / Page:26
Address: 213 Vauxhall Road, Liverpool.

Dickiesam

[dlh1]

Thanks for your help. I think I've found them. I think Michael McDonough married an Ellen Stevens and that Michael McDonough's father was John McDonough. I also believe that a butchers porter could also be classed as a dock labourer if he worked on the docks.

[Tina]

Hi everyone
Mary A Grayson married Thomas McDonough 1901
St Mary's Kirkdale Lancs BMD
Free BMD marriage Dec qtr 1900 W Dby rego

Tina

[Tina]

Hi have you looked in Daggers post about Blackfield St Kirkdale??

Tina