Friday, October 18, 2024
Wppe-Tirder
In the 1950 census, the occupation and industry of my great-aunt Annie Bernier (née Paiement) are recorded as follows:
Ancestry.com interprets this as Wppe-Tirder and Textile Map.
The first word of the occupation, I am fairly confident, is napper, and the second is probably a faulty spelling of teasler. See Century Dictionary s.v. napper, sense b:
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The first word of the occupation, I am fairly confident, is napper, and the second is probably a faulty spelling of teasler. See Century Dictionary s.v. napper, sense b:
A machine by which knitted goods are cleaned, napped, and surfaced. It consists essentially of a roller on which the goods are stretched and brushed with a card or teazel, to remove specks, burs, seeds, etc., to raise the nap, and restore the softness and pliancy of which the fabric has been deprived by washing.The word after textile in the industry column is probably an abbreviation for manufacturing or industry (or possibly it's mill).
