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General => The Common Room => The Lighter Side => Topic started by: diplodicus on Tuesday 10 December 13 09:27 GMT (UK)
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From the 1841 census for Brundish, Suffolk.
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Looks like Kidder to me!
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from another site:
KIDDER: a licensed middleman who bought provisions from farmers and took them to market for resale at a profit
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I'm still inordinately proud of my ancestor who was a Public Convenience Attendant
On his daughter's marriage certificate, he was somewhat more euphemistically described as a Local Authority Attendant :D
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During the Great Depression when jobs were scarce, my grandfather was able to get employment as a 'sanitation engineer' to support his wife, 7 children, wife's parents & wife's grandmother. As he has trained and worked as an engineer in several countries earlier I was a bit surprised when my mother explained this last job was working at the town dump :-\
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A friend once put on an application form that required his previous employment 'Educational Establishment Maintenance and Security Facilitator' [Caretaker / Janitor] and was progressed to the next level, where he was accused of being untruthful about his work experience. :)
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A friend once put on an application form that required his previous employment 'Educational Establishment Maintenance and Security Facilitator' [Caretaker / Janitor] and was progressed to the next level, where he was accused of being untruthful about his work experience. :)
Careful circumlocutions can sometimes be most helpful.
Self-certificate sick leave forms offer enormous scope.
The one I'm most proud of was "mild case of poisoning - exact cause not established"
Well, it certainly wasn't ESTABLISHED ... but the fact I had been drinking the night before MIGHT have had something to do with it ...