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

[pettsy]

My great grandfather was a Street Organ Player.......

I have come across kids as Button Makers and Pencil Case Makers...

One I thought was a LAWYER, on closer inspection, and looking at the area and neighbours, I soon realised he was a SAWYER 

I have a Watch Maker how had his own servants 

[kerryb]

Most of my lot are Ag Labs or Farmers but I do have one family where out of 6 sons 5 became Policemen.

I have a chicken fattener, less said about that the better! an Odd Boy and a Bill Poster 

Kerry

[Bill749]

My great grandfather was an umbrella maker and bath chair proprietor; his brother was a hatter and hosier.

Regards, Bill

[gwen j]

My interest in Family History started as a young child with strories that my Mother told us about her father being the grandson of Baronet Gooch of Benacre Hall in Suffolk.We live in a council house in West Wales so you can imagine how excited we were! It was only when my brother and I were much older and had computers that we finally looking into various branches of our Tree.On my maternal grandfathers side we have lawyers from Durham who eventually moved down to Lincolns Inn in London.This family stayed in Law but also branched into the Military Line.My gg Grandfather was Maj.Gen.Barnett Ford who was Gov.Gen of the Andaman Isles in the mid 1800's.My maternal Grandmother was from the Midlands can can from a family of Ironmongers whose business was originally started by Patrick Delany who came over from Eire.My fathers side was more complicated as he was born illigitimate in 1895 but I managed to find out quite a bit by doing a lot of prying and getting a bit of luck along the way and found out that although he was born in Ebbw Vale his family had moved there in the mid 1800's from West Wales where is  gg grandfather was the local shoemaker and a deacon in the Chapel.His grandparents had moved to Industrial South Wales to work in the Steel Works.I find all the different branches of the family just as exciting to explore as the next and relish the odd skelaton or two!!!!!!

[pixieo5]

i had a grgr aunt who was a bath attendant  i wonder i that was for public baths also my gr grandad was a spirit seller (i knew him as a barman) my nana was a furrier she was a tailoress who worked for Jenners in Edinburgh revamping fur old fur coats for ladies to fit the current fashion in the 1940s and 50s and 60s she always had lots of little bits of fir in the house that me a my sisters would pretend were our pets she also had a great button box which gave us hours of fun hey who need a wii

[Old Bristolian]

My gg grandfather, after many years as a railway porter, became a musician in a Wild West Show (c 1880s)

Steve

[kerryb]

Do you think after working as a Porter he wanted some excitement!!!

Kerry

[Dave Hall]

In my partners tree,she has a WHITESMITH. This is a cheap version of a goldsmith, that works in TIN 
Dave.

[julianb]

Talking of whitesmith's, my great great grandfather, William Henry Quinton,was variously described as a gunmaker, farrier and whitesmith. 

One of his son's became a locksmith and another a scalemaker.

JULIAN