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What professions do you have an unexpectedly large number of in your tree
Personally I have around 11 priests, about 10 watchmakers, and quite a few brushmakers.
Bob
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Pork butchers :)
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I have two vicars from the 1800's and in the 1900's a dentist, loads of teachers and nurses and a civil engineer
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Mine seem to be coachmen, then chauffeurs. Even today, my dad and several of his family are still in the motor trade, dad being a coachbuilder.
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Ag labs, Brickmakers and General Labourers!!! I would love something different and exciting!
Kerry
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Lead smelters! 2xg grandfather was a lead smelter and his father and father in law were both lead smelters. I haven't gone further back on this line, but my guess is that a few more forefathers were. After that no one seemed to follow in the family professions. I rather like that as I am discovering so many new trades that I knew nothing.
Sallysmum
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Blastfurnace men, Ag labs, Blacksmiths and Miners ;D
I wish I could find one with a different job ;)
Jane
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Ag labs (mine), miners (his) and a surprising number of cobblers - just about sums it up really! I also have a few blacksmiths, wheelwrights and carmen.
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Think Jane, Gill and I share a common ancestry :D I've also got a few tenant farmers, a cordwainer, a tailor and some yeomen. Most of the women were domestic servants, laundresses and one or two dressmakers.
But who knows, my illegit lines may be ever so posh ::) ::) ::)
Gadget
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Lots of silkmen(Macclesfield) and carmen (London)
Also a few ag labs- maybe we should start a thread of who DOESN'T have an ag lab?
Carol
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Lots of people who worked down the mines (both miners and pithead workers) and lots who worked in the steel works (iron puddlers, iron moulders, steel smelters, etc) but they're not really that unexpected for Lanarkshire. Also got a fair few general labourers as well as agricultural labourers and farmers but not as many as those with industrial occupations.
May have found some a bit different at the weekend: a vinter from the 18th century. Needs a bit more researching though to definitely be sure that he should be on the tree.
Gordon
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Lots of ag labs and laundresses but on one line.....ivory turners!
Nanny Jan
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Most of my lot are from Lancashire so they are either coal miners or cotton workers. I have spinners, weavers, bleachers and dyers, but I would love to find a Throstle Doffer.
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Ag Labs, Seamstresses, Dressmakers, Fishermen, Sailors and Teachers. :D
subee x
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Ag labs and dressmakers... sigh ::)
meles
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Coal miners, wool trade. That accounts for about half my ancestors.
Most interesting one I've found was my GGG Grandfather who was a chanderlier maker.
Andrew
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Ag Labs, Bakers, Masons, Carpenters, BootMakers, Carters, Grooms, Curriers, Sawyers - and a Conjurer ::)
oh, and a friend has a Beaver Blower ....
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A few Framework Knitters, Hawkers, Coal Miners, Boot and Shoe Makers (cordswainers)
One of my distant relatives was the Post Master of Sutton-in-Ashfield, Registrar of BMDs, he had his own Print Business and he Produced the local paper for Sutton-in-Ashfield, his son had his own Coal, Coke and Lime Business.
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Ag Labs, Miners, Dressmakers and Domestic Servants :(
No posh rellies in my Tree ;D
Jan
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Farmers (Wales), School Masters and Wine Merchants (London), Stone Masons (Scotland) ....................
no one posh in family either
Cal
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Most of mine worked in the cotton mills or on farms - but I do have 'mole catcher & sheep dealer' and a 'professor of astronomy'!
:D
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Ag labs, Fur Sewers, Watchmakers, Dom Servs
Dolly
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B...........ds, by the look of it.
Al.
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B...........ds, by the look of it.
Al.
No not all .................. surely??
Forgot my gg grandfather........... the Professor of Langauges that was an English teacher in France who probably came back from France with a few French phrases C 1948 like 'can I have a loaf of bread' and blew the minds of Victorian folk who were in awe of the 'well travelled gentleman'
;) ;D
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p.s. Does anyone have a 'night soil man' in their tree?? What an awful job that would have been :o
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Crofters , railway men ,miners and one veterinary surgeon
Elizabeth
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I have landowners, lords of the manor, ag labs, furnace workers and b....ds....and because of them b........ds, I might not have the others.
On the other hand, if my guess is right about my main bloodline being a b.......d line from some aristocracy.......
Prove it......Ha!
Al.
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I reckon I've got at least one of everything ... ( maybe 2 at the most !! ) everything - that is except for a Beaver Blower .... ::) ::)
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Beg your pardon???????????????????????!!!
Al.
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Ag Labs, Bakers, Masons, Carpenters, BootMakers, Carters, Grooms, Curriers, Sawyers - and a Conjurer ::)
oh, and a friend has a Beaver Blower ....
Well that's what Scroppers said - his friend had !! ::)
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I can fix that Annie. ::)
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mmmm! so the mothers were those poor innocents taken in by the powerful landowners etc..................... don't envy your research !
My gg grand mother was Caroline Berenger Biggs or Cooper as she took her stepfathers name ............. she was illegitimate and I think she got the Berenger from some quicky toff who was probably the father..... as you say 'Prove it'
No chance ;D
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Well, the blood line that I am most interested in relates to the family of a seafaring gentleman nicknamed 'Black Dick' [I advise you not to Google that!] and there are reasonable grounds to suspect that a b........d line of this family led to where we are today....
But I doubt if I can ever prove it.
Al.
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Well I'm saying nothing on this one,sod that :-X
Derek
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Let's see who knows their history?
Al.
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Me ............ ;) ;) ;) ;)
It is believed that Big Black Dick was born of 'Royal' African parentage before being kidnapped by French slavers who gave him the name of "Richard Le Noir". Unable to subdue his efforts to regain his freedom, his French captors, tossed Richard overboard near a Caribbean island, which may have been Grand Cayman Island.
Miraculously reaching land, he served for several years labouring in a sugar cane field where he learned the secrets of how to turn the sugar cane into the Caribbean's finest rum. His kindly Caymanian master recognizing his hard work and honesty awarded him his freedom in the early 1700's.
A free man and a skilled seaman, Dick tossed away his French name and became known as Big Black Dick. He soon earned the rank of captain of a three-masted-square rigger named "Caymanus". She was a ship carrying 20 cannons with a crew of near 200 men that were known as the best in the Caribbean.
History tells us that "Big Black Dick" was a dashing and handsome figure of a man, wearing a bright purple velvet coat and four pistols in his red silk sash. Those who knew him most immediately, know how much of a man he, indeed, was... possessing certain physical attributes unequalled by most 'all' other men of his gender.
After a successful career, Big Black Dick retired to a more peaceful venture of making the best original pirate rum in the Caribbean.
Annie :)
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Sir Richard Beaumont perhaps Al,Temple house? there's a sausage called Black Dick where I come from ::)
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I can tel u I won't google Black Dick .............. far too risque!! lol ;)
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See,I told you Annie was poetic. 8)
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Sir Richard Beaumont perhaps Al,Temple house? there's a sausage called Black Dick where I come from ::)
There would be :o
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No, Not "Big Black Dick" the Pirate, Not "Little Black Dick" the ....(never mind) but plain old "Black Dick" [helped Nelson out a bit]
The Richard is correct.
Al.
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Oh alright then ....... ::) but I like the other one better !! :P
1781 saw the Victory under the flag of Admiral Kempenfelt who, on 13 December, fell in with a French fleet off Ushant. The French, bound from Brest to the West Indies, were escorting a convoy of troopships. Though Kempenfelt's squadron was numerically inferior, he captured the entire convoy from under the escort's noses, and the Victory added another battle honour to those gained by her forbears of the same name. In October 1782, under the flag of Admiral "Black Dick" Howe (his complexion, not his temper, gave him the nickname), she took part in an action off Cape Spartel and the Relief of Gibraltar. (The Great Siege of Gibraltar lasted 4 years).
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Are'nt Annie's words soothing ::)
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Very !
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And here's a photie too !! :P :P :P
http://www.napoleonguide.com/sailors_howe.htm
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I'm going to bed,Annie's unstressed me ::)
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It wasn't that difficult..... Only had to look at my names interests.
Some reports say it was his complexion, others say it was his foul moods.
His predecessors including 'Scrope' had boats / ships built in the two villages where my main line appears for the first time (roughly 1650)
What? they had cameras in those days?
Al.
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You mean ..... I bored you Derek !! :P :P :P :P
That's OK .... go to bed !! :-\
AND Mr Smarty Pants Al !..... I did NO SUCH THING !!!!!! .... I don't have time to go through the Litany of the Saints !!
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You bore me Annie,no chance,I'm soothed by your very existence ::)
I'll buy you some flowers tomorrow,ok.
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and I'm no Saint.
Al.
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And I'll chop some wood up for Gadget ::)
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What wood ???
I've not got any timber merchants or lumber jacks.
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Anyway getting back to the subject!
I did find a watchmaker and cordwainer amongst my lot last night. I thought I must have something interesting in there
Kerry
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Mine are mainly Labourers and Farm Hands though I do have the odd Brickmaker, Milkman, Builder and a Brewer's Clerk or two. Quite a few Seamen and soldiers. Also a Sailmaker and Slate Quarry workers
Carol
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Miners....miners.....miners......miners...
oh, and a few more miners !! ;D ;D
At least a couple varied it from coal mining to lead mining !! ::)
(Now you see why why I got so excited about my great aunt's husband being a professional footballer.)
Sally
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Ag labs, miners, miners, ag labs. I have got a police constable and a publican though! I was really excited about that!!!
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One thing we all seem to have missed out is Comedian's!!
Lot's of laugh's on this thread and no one has noticed that Hereditary Trait!!
More!
Goggy. ;) ;D
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And no one has any undertakers :D
Sally - miners :) I get excited when I get a cm(below) and coal labourer (above) and a hewer and I've even got a dialler :o
Gadget
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farmers, teachers, clergymen, missionaries
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Well Goggy ..... I've got a few funny beggars - they just didn't get paid for it !! ::) ::) ::) ::) ;)
AND Gadget ..... I've got 2 Undertakers ........... !! a Sexton and a Vicar .......... !! anything happens in our family - we're all set !! ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;)
My favourite is an Artist who did the illustrations for Black Beauty !!
Annie :) :)
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Cool Annie
One of my favourite books as a child!!!!
Kerry
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On my Dads side mostly Sea Captains or occupations related to seafaring (including one privateer) ... for the last 6 or 7 generations.
As for me, I get sea sick so I broke the chain.
yn9man
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Annie -
I think you've got some other famous ones that we won't talk about ;)
Me - I've got a lovely 'fallen woman' who I love dearly, a headmaster of the Bluecoat School in Liverpool, John Prescott :(, a head of the Home Civil service, who got a peerage, a few University professors, many artists, and lots of other wonderful people......
And me who seems to have combined a lot of these in my various careers ::) ::) ::)
Gadget
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There's quite a few tailors (my Banister family in Leyland was a family of tailors for two or three generations).
As I'm from Preston, I have a lot of ancestors who worked in cotton mills. Even my mother worked in a mill for a time in the 1970's.
I think the most unique job in my family is Bath House Keeper.
Stephen :)
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Yes ! I have my "Sir" !! :)
And a couple of Artists ..... but the ones I'm most proud of are my Soldiers ....... !! :D
They went through Hell and High Water for me .......... if it wasn't for them our family wouldn't be here !!
:)
Edit ...... ooooh Stephen .... nice one !! ;)
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Well all mine were Weavers,weaved this,weaved that and still weaving in and out of insanity,would'nt think so would you with a name like mine,hmmmmmmmmm ::)
Derek 8)
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Well I'm proud of all of mine - including those soldiers, Annie :)
My grandad's comment in his 1915 diary for Dec 25 'horrible - the worst Christmas I've ever had' and he was born and raised in a workhouse until his teens :(
Today, I've received a lovely story that a cousin (over 20 years older than me) wrote in 1982 about growing up in the village I grew up in. She was in the WRAF or WRAC in WW2. I'm hoping to put her story up on my ws soon.
And masses of uncles and cousins who served in WW1 and WW2 - and going back a bit more, Boer and Napoleonic - not found any in the Crimea yet.
Trouble is no one seems to learn about war.
Gadget
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C of E priests - and one C of E nun! (And now I'm a backslider - they are all revolving in their graves! I put down my religion on the Aussie census as "Universalist"!! ;D ;D)
Also lawyers, merchants, builders, army officers and constabulary inspectors - lots of middle class. And farmers/landowners/gentlemen farmers! And lightermen on the Thames, and a couple of sea captains!! 8) 8) What a mixture!
MarieC
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I assume that you are not a direct line descendant of the C of E nun, Marie :)
I'd forgotten about my minister. This one is either my 6 or 7 x great grandfather or a ?7or 8 x great uncle - I'm still checking. He was the minister for the parish of Parton, KKD in the late 17th- early 18th century. I just love the epitaph on his headstone. I have photgraphs of it - very elaborate, flat stone. Here's what it has in the MIs, published by the Scottish Genealogical Society:
Here lys Samuel SPALDING min at parton d 6.12.1712 in 20y of min & 43rd of age. here lyes wid Eliz Broun 20.5.1727 62.
This pious painful pastor is at rest
Who while on earth with graces rare was blest
This heavenly star which once did shine so bright
Is now come down Oh we have lost its light
But yet in Glory it shall ever shine
By this gain is his the loss is thine.
And what about Match girls - what a horrid job. Does anyone have any of those?
Gadget
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Mine were mostly ag labs and spinners etc. However, they must have fought every day of their lives to provide for their huge families. So, although they don't sound very windswept and interesting I bet you they had very hard but interesting lives.
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A good handful of Rev. Gents, some tailors(me tailoress too) butchers, farmers(yeomen or otherwise) one cess pit cleaner, woodworkers of all sorts crawling out of the woodwork, a whole lot of paupers and a stonemason. Oh, and a very special bicycle mechanic, my dear little Dad.
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Well,didn't REALLYwant to let this particular cat out of the bag but,one of my lot,just the one,was a hat maker.
If this attract's any deleterious remark's from the 'nut gallery',Ishall hold my breathe 'til my face goes purple!!
Goggy. ;) ;D 8) 8)
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Hi goggy, if anyone says nasty things you can always give them a shove into my great great grandfather's cess pit :D
then we would see who would come up smelling of roses.
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I assume that you are not a direct line descendant of the C of E nun, Marie :)
Gadget
You're right, Gadget! (That would make a nice scandal for the webpage!) She was the sister of my gggrandmother nee Martin.
MarieC
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Mr G has a grave digger at Kensal Green in the 1840s and lots of railwaymen, soldiers,weavers and glove makers (Worcestershire) and, of course, the ones we all have - ag labs.
Still no match girls. Did they all die so young that they didn't have children?
Gadget
Nice one Marie - lovely story if it had been
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of course, the ones we all have - ag labs.
I haven't found any ag labs yet!!! Maybe there are some way back, but I'm back quite a way on most lines, and nary an ag lab! Lightermen - they are my honoured working class group!
MarieC
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Oyster fishermen, mariners, sailors and deep sea divers. I'm getting a bit seasick!
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Elaine
I'm guessing they all lived by the sea ;) ;) ;D ;D
Kerry
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I am stunned I have no ag labs.... farmers yes! Ag labs no!
I do have poultry man who was formerly a schoolmaster! and his brother my gg grandfather ended up an insurance salesman after being a schoolmaster too ...........do you think it had something to do with they couldn't get along with children?????
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Mine are nearly all miners, with one or two stone masons to break the pattern. It's not too surpriing, really, as the family all come from the Durham area - but I was a bit disappointed at not having seafaring men in my tree. I've got three brothers who all joined the Navy and were in submarines, and I love sailing myself - the closest I get to a nautical reference, was my ggggg grandfather, Patrick - on 21st October 1805, when Nelson was urging all Englishmen to do their duty - he was getting married!!!
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I have a load of potters, both males and females from Bo'ness and weavers/farmers from Ayrshire.
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Well,didn't REALLYwant to let this particular cat out of the bag but,one of my lot,just the one,was a hat maker.
If this attract's any deleterious remark's from the 'nut gallery',Ishall hold my breathe 'til my face goes purple!!
Goggy. ;) ;D 8) 8)
did you know that Emile Griffith, considered by many to be the best boxer of the Sixties was a hat maker before stepping through the ropes and tossing leather.
Part of that was covered in the movie documentary "Ring of Fire -
the Emile Griffith Story"
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of course, the ones we all have - ag labs.
I haven't found any ag labs yet!!! Maybe there are some way back, but I'm back quite a way on most lines, and nary an ag lab! Lightermen - they are my honoured working class group!
MarieC
I don't have any ag labourers yet either - I thought I must be doing it wrong! Good to hear that others have an absence of aforementioned!
Sallysmum
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I'm always pleased to find something other than Ag Labs! Don't forget that without them, though your lot wouldn't have eaten!!!
Kerry
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Ag labs,lacemakers,tailors and dressmakers :)
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I've got a vast range - A is for accountants, ag labs, architects, attorneys; B is for bakers, bankers, bookkeepers, barristers, blacksmiths....Y is for yeoman, yeoman and yet another yeoman.
In terms of trends, I've got a good smattering of C of E clergy and, in my Yorkshire lines, shedloads of people who made their living in the wool trade: wool/worsted spinners, carders, piecers, sorters, staplers, manufacturers, traders, merchants, mill owners etc etc.
Also (in London and Birmingham lines) a surprising number of attorneys, barristers, magistrates, J.P.s and one solitary judge - I'm a barrister myself but had no idea there was any family history of it before I started.
Anna
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Anna
Isn't it nice to find professions and other things in your family research that affirm who you are and what you do??
MarieC ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Isn't it nice to find professions and other things in your family research that affirm who you are and what you do??
It is really nice, and makes research a great deal easier when all the records are on my doorstep in Lincoln's Inn Library. But it does make me wonder how much choice I really had in the matter and how much was pre-determined by the genes - spooky!
Anna
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On one side of my family they were mostly fisherman and a couple were lifeboat men. They all live in Aldeburgh Suffolk, even my Grandad who was bought up in Hampton Middlesex loved fishing.
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Ag Labs - but there were some gas fitters too!! I got SERIOUSLY excited when I saw that. Also found a hairdresser the other day. That was almost too much excitement!! I nearly fell off my chair ;D :o ::)
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You frighten me you lot, ??? I am a Gas fitter and to date I think I am still alive,
Pete, :) :)
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So Pete where were you on the night of the 1881 census???
Oh sorry, different Pete! :o :o :o :o ;D ;D ;D ;D ;) ;) ;) ;) ;)
Kerry
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You're being just a tad ironic there, Carrie!!! ::) ::) ;D
MarieC
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When researching my late husband's family - all very religious - so that I could present my children with family history folders at the time of their marriages, I was surprised to find that he had a good number of ancestors who were apparently coal porters.
Eventually, it dawned on me that none of them was a 'coal porter' at all. Their occupations had been incorrectly transcribed from various census returns. In fact, they were 'colporteurs' - pedlars in religious tracts
Chilis
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Well,didn't REALLYwant to let this particular cat out of the bag but,one of my lot,just the one,was a hat maker.
If this attract's any deleterious remark's from the 'nut gallery',Ishall hold my breathe 'til my face goes purple!!
I have a couple hat finishers. No breath holding. We'll stand and fight.
I have the usual ag labs, servants, factory workers, but a whole line of professionals (lawyers, architects, doctors) that ends with my ggg grandfather, who decided to become a silk ribbon weaver, while his nephews went on to become famous doctors.
Being Irish Catholic, I have more nuns and priests than I would ever want to be in a room with, and in 4 generations I have 7 lawyers. Egads.
Kath
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Most of my lot were ag labs...I always get so happy when I get something else. lol. I'm so bored with ag labs. Give me a butcher or something. :P
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There must have been an awful lot of ag labs in this country then if we all have trees stuffed full of them. Do think they had two jobs, because otherwise nothing else would have got done?
Kerry
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;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
I found a carpenter this week :D Makes a nice change 8)
Jane (still searching)
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I really only have ag labs (as far as I know) in the tree of ancestors of one great grandparent
Perhaps I am unusual in this.
I have plenty of coal miners, hat makers, and weavers too. Also quite a number of bakers.
Bob
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I have a lot of shoemakers, brickmakers, silk weavers, hat makers and maltsters. And millions of agricultural labourers.
The rarest I think are probably a fancy label cutter, and a glass beveller.
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I also have numerous Ag Labs, but recently found an entire line of thatchers, even an article on how they chose the best thatch - it really is interesting!
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the majority of them were coal miners or as one had on his marriage certificate 'pitman' which is probably what they called themselves.Also have a tailor,colliery traffic manager,blacksmith,musician so there is a bit of variety.
Steve
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After the Civil War and the Parliamentarian triumph, Royalist supporters were subjected to inquiries by a Committee for Composition for their ‘Delinquency’.
I am chuffed as old boots to find that one of my ancestors was described as a ‘Notorious Delinquent’……and although it probably doesn’t have the same meaning as today, I can probably use it to explain my behaviour!
Interestingly, bearing in mind this was the Cromwellian take on things at the time, another descendant of the same family went on to become KCMG & Commissioner of Basutoland…..how fortunes change....
AL.
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Miners....miners.....miners......miners...
oh, and a few more miners !! ;D ;D
At least a couple varied it from coal mining to lead mining !! ::)
(Now you see why why I got so excited about my great aunt's husband being a professional footballer.)
Sally
Oooo! excitement! On latest batch of certs to arrive - one marriage in 1869, even though groom is yet another "miner", one father is a Stonemason, and the other is difficult to read but I think it says "Hardwareman".
Whatever that is, at least its not a miner! ;D
Sally
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Anna
Isn't it nice to find professions and other things in your family research that affirm who you are and what you do??
MarieC ;D ;D ;D ;D
Oh dear, I'm in trouble - my most common ancestral "occupation" was Kleptomaniac!!!!
Yep - 17 convicts who all stole once too many times ;D
Does that mean it runs in the family and is a perpetual occupation ??? ;)
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Could do, Lady Di, after all, you are colleting ancestors.
Then again, a Klepto would go after someone elses, bit like certain other sites I think.
If I leave Eliza Ann and her lot around, you wouldn't like to Klepto them up, would you? Wouldn't miss em, not one bit.
(And that's the biggest porkie of the lot, I love them, every one, except Great Grandfather William who deserted us.)
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One side of the family were book keepers,the other side all ag labs.Also a carpenter, many servants,a waggoner,and a shareholder.
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Four butchers, all on my mum's mum's side, also the usual ag labs, farmers, factory workers and miners.
Anna
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Miners Nailors Chainmakers Puddlers
And those were the womens jobs!
No not really, just the nailors.
Jackie.
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Lots of sailors, shipwrights, sail makers, and dock labourers. Also, lots and lots of stone masons, completely unconnected to each other.
Red :D
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Carpenters
Fishermen
Miners
Quarry workers
Ag Labs
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Have you ever heard of Leemister ? Leemaster ?
Something to do with agriculture.
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Master of a field ??? ??? ???
Gadget
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3xG grandfather was a butcher - the shame of it. I'll never be able to hold my head high in the vegetarian society again!!!
Salllysmum
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My partner has butchers in his family, and the butchers shop they owned is still running, although not by his family. But they do have award winning sausages. We tried some earlier this year when we stopped there so that he could have a look at the shop and they were very nice sausages.
Now I wouldn't a butcher in my family. Sorry sallysmum, some of us eat meat ocasionally!!!!!
Kerry
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Ag Labs
Miner
Train driver
Potters
General labourers
In laws
Soldiers
Not so typically in husband's tree - a taxidermist and a prison warder :o
Ellen
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Going back some 350 years the family tree splits with two brothers, 1 to produce generations of landowners, painters, writers, a member of parliament, the other to produce ag labs, cordwainers, miners, and gen. labs. Guess which one my lot came down!
Tom G
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Oh joy, joy, joy! Just added a bit more to my tree...Fanny(of no name) has become Frances Harriss, and her Dad and Mum William and Elizabeth Harriss.
All anticipation...What was William's profession?
ANOTHER bloomin' carpenter. I'm surrounded by woodworkers(cutting it down, sawing it up or turning it into furniture) tailors and clerics!
I WANT MORE AG. LABS. I want to join the ag. lab. club! ;D
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Hi PaulaToo,
You can have some of my Ag Labs but I already have plenty of carpenters; don't have any tailors...........yet!
Nanny Jan
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Like most of us - lots of ag labs!!
Seems to be a bit regional - lots of gardeners in the south and Scotland( I knew I got it from somewhere). Lots of weavers in the industrial north. Also a few cordwainers in what's now Cumbria.
It's funny how the yeomen and gentlemen I've found seem to be back in the far distance so none of the wealth percolted through!
Oh and I've just discovered a bookbinder, so there must have been some literacy about!
Jill
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Strange, isn't it, how you seem to have a lot of the same profession. My woodworkers are on both sides of the family, in Pembroke and Oxfordshire. Tailors are Pembroke and Buckinghamshire. Also mine are all Tailors, no Dressmakers(propper dressmakers, not the other kind) and they are on both sides of the family.
Ag. labs. are very thin on the ground (forgive the pun) but that doesn't mean they had money. One Yeoman and a whole shower of Paupers, so much so, that I think I should claim Pauper as the occupation of that branch on the family tree.
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on one side of my family throughout the 1800 they were ever watchmakers or brushmakers all living in london
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A couple of my husband's family in Birmingham were bell hangers and lock smiths, followed by furniture polishers - then a taxidermist!
Ellen
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On my mum's side - mainly stonemasons, although there was also a tea dealer!
On my Dad's side - miners and pit-head workers.
On hubby's side - gunsmiths/engravers, locomotive engineers (Indian Railways), and musicians ! ;D
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We could play Happy Families with this lot ;D ;D Anyone wanna swop an ag lab for a baker or butcher.
Has anyone got a candlestick maker?
Got really excited when I found great grandpa was an engine driver, but when I looked at the original image it had scrawled threshing machine after it...so, yet another ag lab ::) !
I call them my 'son's of the soil', although there are one or two shoemakers, gamekeepers and blacksmiths among them. Of the females there are laundresses, charwomen and a great aunt wot 'owned a mangle' ;D
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Good for her, suey. I hope she had many pressing appointments.
But seriously, it isn't the sort of thing you even consider until you go into this family history stuff is it....
What was your ancestor's business...?
Oh, Rentamangle...
It's great, isn't it. 8)
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Suey I have a 'Mangler' also. At first I thought she must have been one of the original 'Tag Team Wrestlers' ;D There's also miners, cotton workers, miners, gilders, enamelers, miners, publicans and a mantle maker. Oh and a few miners .. . did I mention those!!!
Barbara
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My father was the only direct ancestor in my tree with a profession, a draughtsman, all the rest were tradesmen or labourers like most of the other people replying to this thread.
David
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On my grandfather's side they were wheelwrights and carpenters - with a coach builder thrown in for good measure. The carpenters and builders have continued in Australia - and my son trained as an architect but diversified into building materials science. It will be interesting to see if any of the next generation continue in this type of work.
My English grandmother's side of the family were all poor ag. labs and shoemakers. Did have one leather currier though who went to the USA and became a millionaire early in the 1900s. Not by being a leather currier - he got into the Amusement business over there. ;D ;D ;D
......dee
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brushmakers,brushmakers,brushmakers and ........ a french polisher,then another brushmaker,makes it easy for me to find all the brushmakers though,thanks gt gt gts of everything
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I have Fur Pullers and Flintknappers
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I just found a carpenter. Wish he was around now. ;D
Kath
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Blacksmiths and worsted weavers
Margaret
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Coal miners 19th 20th cent. Ag labs. Shepherd Lincs Wolds. Cordwainer.
Tenant farmers. Plasterer. Brewers cashier. Office manager 19th 20th cent.
Public House keepers early 19th cent. Joiner/cabinet maker. House wives. Relating to where they lived really. Attached George Kilburn born 1815 Penistone WRYks, coal miner.
Gragareth.