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Occupation Interests / Re: Who has the worst occupation?
« on: Thursday 19 April 07 13:19 BST (UK)  »
It's alarming some of the mistakes census enumerators make. I once found a 15 year old girl apparently working as a gas fitter, in 1851! I expect the gas fitter was probably an elder brother and the clerk entered the occupation in the wrong box.

The worst name probably has to go to the Crapper family from Dungworth. I didn't record what they did for their living!

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Gloucestershire / Re: Gloucestershire Surname Interests
« on: Thursday 19 April 07 13:10 BST (UK)  »
I am looking for Fawkes families from Bisley.
My 3x great grandfather Peter Fawkes, a stone mason, was born in Bisley, 1812.
He had a brother and two sisters: Isaac b. 1815, Esther b. 1830 and Ruth b. 1833.
His parents were Richard b. abt. 1780 d. 1840 who married Esther Ridler.
Richard had one brother, William.
Richard's father's name was William.
By 1861 Peter's family had moved to Camberwell, Surrey, but there is no trace of Peter.
Peter's brother Isaac was a woollen draper and lived in London for most of his working life, but after his retirement and wife's death, he moved back to Bisley, married again and had two more children.

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Surrey Completed Look up Requests / Re: Barge Builders
« on: Thursday 19 April 07 13:03 BST (UK)  »
I have three generations of barge builders in my family tree, the Ayles family of Rotherhithe.

A Thames barge is a completely different beast from the familiar narrow canal barge. The Thames barge was much wider and was used to ferry goods from ships not tied up to the dock side to the docks. They were latterly diesel powered, but with less labour intensive handling method and increasing mechanisation, they disappeared from the 1950s.

I believe barge builders had to serve an apprenticeship and records are kept in the Guildhall library in London.

I live quite a long way from London so I have not used this resource yet but I understand this library is open to the general public.

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One Name Studies: A to G / AYLES- Walter H Ayles MP
« on: Wednesday 07 March 07 18:28 GMT (UK)  »
I have done a bit of research in to Walter Ayles, Labour MP for Southall 1945-50 and Hayes and Harlington 1950-53, as he was born in Lambeth and I have Ayles families from Rotherhithe /Lambeth /Southwark in my family tree.

I have traced his family back to his grandfather and it does appear that he is descended from a different Ayles family line.

If anyone else is interested in this family mail me back and I will be happy to share the results of my research

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One Name Studies: A to G / Ayles family, Southwark and Rotherhithe
« on: Thursday 22 February 07 13:19 GMT (UK)  »
I am interested in hearing from anybody with links to the Ayles family of South London.

My great grandmother was Rachel Ayles, b. 1883 in Southwark, who had six children.

The earliest antecedent I have found so far is her great grandfather Richard J b. 1806 Rotherhithe.

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