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Occupation Interests / Re: What is the most interesting occupation in your family tree? (#2)
« on: Wednesday 28 September 22 19:29 BST (UK) »
My great uncle was an umbrella maker, which I think is a very unusual and niche job but was apparently a common occupation in the Romany community at the time. Someone who was lodging with his family in the boarding house they stayed in for a bit was also a bee hive maker! (His parents, my great great grandparents, were horse dealers and hawkers - his mother was the first female hawker in the family.)
Not really as unusual, but my great grandmother on the other side of my English family took over the family business from her husband after he died at work. They had a bit of a farming business and owned most of the shops and workplaces in the village too. There's an article from the 1870s in the local gazette about the vicar having a dispute with my great grandmother because he thought she was a "stout and bossy woman".
Not really as unusual, but my great grandmother on the other side of my English family took over the family business from her husband after he died at work. They had a bit of a farming business and owned most of the shops and workplaces in the village too. There's an article from the 1870s in the local gazette about the vicar having a dispute with my great grandmother because he thought she was a "stout and bossy woman".
