From: john1@s145802280.onlinehome.fr   
      
   On 03/09/2021 20:16, john wrote:   
   > On 03/09/2021 18:13, Jenny M Benson wrote:   
   >> In the 1861 Census (RG9-84-45-20)) Elizabeth Harris (who may have been   
   >> married to a relative of mine) appears to have been a "Hawker of Jays".   
   >>   
   >> It seems unlikely this was related to birds, so what was a Jay?   
   >   
   > Toys?   
      
   See how "To" in Tobacco Pipe Maker is written in the first occupation on   
   the page and how the J in John is written in John Royston household 116   
      
   Plenty of references to street sellers of toys of various sorts in   
   LONDON LABOUR AND THE LONDON POOR by Henry Mayhew   
      
   e.g. The dolls are most usually carried in baskets by street-sellers   
   (who are not makers) and generally by women who are very poor.   
      
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/55998/55998-h/55998-h.htm   
      
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