What is the most interesting occupation in your family tree? (#2)

[daval57]

I'm an airline pilot and part time brain surgeon.

Oh, sorry.  Wrong forum.  Thought I was at a singles night.

[ajcarroll]

Hi

I found out a couple of months ago that my gg grandfather was a policeman in QLD Australia. I didnt really think much of the time but it really made me laugh when I ordered his police records! The chief of police went to my gg grandfathers station to see how things were going and in his report he wrote

 'Constable Thomas Casey is the stupidest man I have ever met, he can not even complete a simple investigation and should be removed from this station immediately.'

This is my gg grandfather............ 

Cheers

Andrea

[kerryb]

  Well as funny as it is Andrea, how great to have something written about his character!  One of my families 5 out of 6 boys became policemen, I shall have to try and search out some of their records and see what is said about them!

Kerry

[ShaunJ]

I have a Calvinistic Methodist minister who became a professional tea taster..

[belfordian]

I had an ancestor listed on the census as   "worn-out hind". Not surprisingly he died shortly afterwards!

nb a "hind" was a Northumbrian farmworker engaged on an annual basis.

[PaulaToo]

That's a beauty, belfordian.
But wouldn't that make you feel good...to see you have been termed as 'worn-out' 

[shirley1]

My ggrandfather was a wood turner for Gillows and Waring in Lancaster He started at the age of 12 and was still ther at 85 years old  Shirley

[kerryb]

Shirley

That's pretty amazing, I suppose he must have enjoyed his work.

Kerry

[lancs lass]

My friend has a Goldfish Catcher in her family tree we discovered recentley, this was in west yorks the mind boggles we have no idea what this was the nearest thing we can come up with is that he may have worked on the fairs  .