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Frederick G Baker, of Leicester, appears on the 1939 England and Wales Register. He was a Hub Slagger Boots Nellie. Why couldn't I be one of them?
Rhonda
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Perhaps Ancestry need some someone to transcribe it properly. The occupation relates to his employment with Boots and Shoes
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01ojo/
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Perhaps Ancestry need some someone to transcribe it properly. The occupation relates to his employment with Boots and Shoes
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01ojo/
Find My Past didn't even attempt to transcribe it, they just put ? ? ?
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Perhaps Ancestry need some someone to transcribe it properly. The occupation relates to his employment with Boots and Shoes
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01ojo/
Find My Past didn't even attempt to transcribe it, they just put ? ? ?
I have submitted a correction. :) The surname appears to be Barker not Baker
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Aha. I wondered why I couldn't find him on MyHeritage. But they don't give anything for his occupation: perhaps too difficult even for question marks.
I've also got a John Iliff who appears on the 1777 Militia List for Crick in Northamptonshire. He was a "hog gobler". I'm not sure I'd want to be one of them, even though nobody's ever been able to tell me what hog goblers did.
Rhonda
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Aha. I wondered why I couldn't find him on MyHeritage. But they don't give anything for his occupation: perhaps too difficult even for question marks.
I've also got a John Iliff who appears on the 1777 Militia List for Crick in Northamptonshire. He was a "hog gobler". I'm not sure I'd want to be one of them, even though nobody's ever been able to tell me what hog goblers did.
Rhonda
maybe
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Hog-gobbler
::) ::) ::)
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Thank you, davidft. I hadn't come across that one but there was another, extraordinarily vulgar, definition a couple of years ago which I can no longer find. Perhaps it's been removed. I think it's safe to say neither definition would have been current as an "occupation" in rural Northamptonshire in 1777.
Rhonda
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I think it should be Heel Slugger
Operate or tend a variety of machines to join, decorate, reinforce, or finish shoes and shoe parts.
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I am new, but thank you all. In particular Rosie's link to occupations. What is a "Glory-hole tender"? It takes me back fifty years...
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Not sourced from genealogy records, but: “What's My Line? was a Classic British television panel game from the 1950's. Contestants with unusual occupations sign in, perform a mime of the job that they do, then field yes-or-no questions from four celebrities aiming to work out the contestant's job.” The weirdest occupation on the programme is widely believed to be a "saggar maker's bottom knocker".
http://www.thepotteries.org/bottle_kiln/saggar.htm
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... at least in those days, most people had heard of the "celebrities" involved.
weren't they usually Gilbert Harding, (famously grumpy) David Nixon (magician) Lady Isobel Barnet ( believe she was later arrested for something or other) and Barbara Kelly (actor? possibly canadian) - I may be wrong but not bad recall considering I was very young at the time.
Wasn't the Question Master Eammon Andrews? Or have I got that wrong
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Not sourced from genealogy records, but: “What's My Line? was a Classic British television panel game from the 1950's. Contestants with unusual occupations sign in, perform a mime of the job that they do, then field yes-or-no questions from four celebrities aiming to work out the contestant's job.” The weirdest occupation on the programme is widely believed to be a "saggar maker's bottom knocker".
http://www.thepotteries.org/bottle_kiln/saggar.htm
Hilarious ;D ;D ;D ;D
Carol
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... at least in those days, most people had heard of the "celebrities" involved.
weren't they usually Gilbert Harding, (famously grumpy) David Nixon (magician) Lady Isobel Barnet ( believe she was later arrested for something or other) and Barbara Kelly (actor? possibly canadian) - I may be wrong but not bad recall considering I was very young at the time.
Wasn't the Question Master Eammon Andrews? Or have I got that wrong
Correct! And I remember seeing that particular episode in black-and-white! Of course, you must realise that I was but a mere babe-in-arms at the time! ::)
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Et moi, aussi!
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I remember Whats my line - it must have been a favourite in our house. I seem to recall Bernard Braden as a panel member as well. He was married to Barbara Kelly. Poor Lady Isobel Barnet was arrested for shoplifting I think. I think she died as a result of an electric fire falling into her bath, poor woman. I believe a verdict of suicide was ruled.
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They performed one episode in Harrods Department store. I happened to be with my mother in Harrods that day. I always liked to look at the pets section. Gone now I believe.
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In 1980 she was found guilty of shoplifting, being fined £75 for stealing a can of tuna and a carton of cream worth 87p from her village grocer. In 2020 she hopefully would have been given help rather than a fine.
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I've just found two women in the 1841 Warwickshire census at "Dale End", with an occupation that surprised, nay shocked, me = ugh
Woodhill, Sarah, age 35, Occupation: Bleeder with leeches
Maskell, Susannah, age 25, Occ: Bleeder with leeches
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I've just found two women in the 1841 Warwickshire census at "Dale End", with an occupation that surprised, nay shocked, me = ugh
Woodhill, Sarah, age 35, Occupation: Bleeder with leeches
Maskell, Susannah, age 25, Occ: Bleeder with leeches
https://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/resources/patient-information/surgery/Plastic-surgery/leech-therapy.pdf
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There's a whole list of what each person in a hog gang in a slaughter house does in this book. There's a section above the Hog gang pertaining to the cattle gang
url link
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01pcl/