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Carrier?

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This is my gggranfathers occupation on my ggrandfathers marriage certificate, could someone please tell me what this occupation means, they were living in North Italy in the 1800s.

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Lynne was he a caruso a sulfur carrier they would carry sacks of sulfur ore from the sulfur miners after it was mine.

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Could it be CARRIERO?

This is a "cart wright", one who makes and repairs carts :-)

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In some places I found "carriere" as a persona who has a business with chariots (driver or owner).
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the other friends already replied abt "carriere" word;
instead, if the word is "corriere"= messenger
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