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Member Since: August 2005 Posts: 46 Send Message	Tina	Report	10 Apr 2009 17:37
	I suspect that a "Tea Agent" was engaged in importing tea and selling it on. Even in 1901 tea was more of value than to day and much less available to all.
	Researching: Thomson, Lanarkshire. Hobkirk, Roxburghshire. Macrae, Macdonald, Cameron, Highland Scotland. Riddell, Aberdeenshire & England & Wales. Jones, West Wales. Longman & Hart, Dorset & Hampshire.
Member Since: January 2005 Posts: 1,990 Send Message	Kate	Report	10 Apr 2009 17:24
	It could be someone like a grocer, I suppose, who specialised in selling tea. I wonder if they meant it in the same way as we would use "news agent" now - a person you went to, to buy your newspapers (or in her case, tea).
Member Since: March 2009 Posts: 2 Send Message	JulianP	Report	10 Apr 2009 17:20
Member Since: March 2009 Posts: 2 Send Message	I wonder if anyone can help a newbie please? Whilst doing some research in the 1901 census, I found that my Great Grandmother had the proffession of "Tea Agent". I found this intriging because she was also listed as self employed. Any one know what a Tea Agent was or what they did?