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Old 01-09-19, 08:21
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She was a typist, stenographer. Any idea what his occupation was?
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Old 01-09-19, 09:06
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Frank Cecil Harvey born May 11 1886. Any idea what his occupation was?
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Here is his birth reg telling us the area he was born:

Births Jun 1886
HARVEY Frank Cecil Hackney 1b 456

He was baptised 6 Jun 1886 at St Andrew's Stoke Newington, parents George Alfred (law clerk) and Alice Amelia of 7 Martaban Road, Stoke Newington

On the 1911 census he is:

Walden Road, Hornchurch, Essex

Frank Cecil Harvey son, single, 25, shipping clerk, born Stoke Newington, London

Parents George Alfred and Alice Amelia.

(his father and employed siblings are all clerks of one sort or another)
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Old 01-09-19, 09:39
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A typist stenographer was a typist who could transcribe shorthand. More commonly known as a shorthand typist and once a very common occupation for females. Almost extinct now.

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Old 04-09-19, 14:37
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I have realised that my post about stenographers is an over simplification really. I had forgotten that a stenograph machine is a kind of typewriter which produces shorthand which is later typed up into normal script.

Shorthand (the manually drawn sort)would normally be used in an office environment for taking dictation. Stenographers would work in say, a courtroom, recording everything that was said by various parties rather than taking one to one dictation.

Prompted by a programme I have just watched, the thought entered my head that this lady may have worked in some sort of secret capacity but that may just be my over active imagination!

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