Translation Help

Startet af Michael Mortensen, 17 Jan 2011 - 17:19

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Michael Mortensen

Could someone help me by translating a couple of entries from a 1885 Census record for a Mortensen household in Copenhagen.
What does "Arbeidsmand,tilfældig" mean?
2. What does "arbeider" mean?
Tak,
Michael Mortensen

Ralph Rasmussen

Arbeid is labor. Arbeidsmand, laborer.  If also tilfældig, he is a day laborer. As a noun, arbeider is worker, as a verb 'works'.

mvh
-Ralph
Med venlig Hilsen
Ralph Rasmussen
<1850 Hammer herred, Præstø