What professions do you have a lot of?

[XPhile2868]

There's quite a few tailors (my Banister family in Leyland was a family of tailors for two or three generations).

As I'm from Preston, I have a lot of ancestors who worked in cotton mills. Even my mother worked in a mill for a time in the 1970's.

I think the most unique job in my family is Bath House Keeper.


Stephen

[liverpool annie]

Yes ! I have my "Sir" !!  

And a couple of Artists ..... but the ones I'm most proud of are my Soldiers ....... !!  

They went through Hell and High Water for me .......... if it wasn't for them our family wouldn't be here !!

 

Edit ...... ooooh Stephen .... nice one !! 

[d.weaving]

Well all mine were Weavers,weaved this,weaved that and still weaving in and out of insanity,would'nt think so would you with a name like mine,hmmmmmmmmm
Derek

[Gadget]

Well I'm proud of all of mine - including those soldiers, Annie 

My grandad's comment in his 1915 diary for Dec 25 'horrible - the worst Christmas I've ever had' and he was born and raised in a workhouse until his teens 

Today, I've received a lovely story that a cousin (over 20 years older than me) wrote in 1982 about growing up in the village I grew up in. She was in the WRAF or WRAC in WW2. I'm hoping to put her story up on my ws soon.

And masses of uncles and cousins who served in WW1 and WW2 - and going back a bit more, Boer and Napoleonic  - not found any in the Crimea yet.

Trouble is no one seems to learn about war.

Gadget

[MarieC]

C of E priests - and one C of E nun!  (And now I'm a backslider - they are all revolving in their graves!  I put down my religion on the Aussie census as "Universalist"!!    )

Also lawyers, merchants, builders, army officers and constabulary inspectors - lots of middle class.  And farmers/landowners/gentlemen farmers!  And lightermen on the Thames, and a couple of sea captains!!    What a mixture!

MarieC

[Gadget]

I assume that you are not a direct line descendant of the C of E nun, Marie 

I'd forgotten about my minister. This one is either my 6 or 7 x great grandfather or a ?7or 8 x great uncle - I'm still checking. He was the minister for the parish of Parton, KKD in the late 17th- early 18th century. I just love the epitaph on his headstone. I have photgraphs of it - very elaborate, flat stone. Here's what it has in the MIs, published by the Scottish Genealogical Society:

Here lys Samuel SPALDING min at parton d 6.12.1712 in 20y of min & 43rd of age. here lyes wid Eliz Broun 20.5.1727 62.

This pious painful pastor is at rest
Who while on earth with graces rare was blest
This heavenly star which once did shine so bright
Is now come down Oh we have lost its light
But yet in Glory it shall ever shine
By this gain is his the loss is thine.

And what about Match girls - what a horrid job. Does anyone have any of those?

Gadget

[wheeldon]

Mine were mostly ag labs and spinners etc.  However, they must have fought every day of their lives to provide for their huge families.  So, although they don't sound very windswept and interesting I bet you they had very hard but interesting lives.

[PaulaToo]

A good handful of Rev. Gents, some tailors(me tailoress too) butchers, farmers(yeomen or otherwise) one cess pit cleaner, woodworkers of all sorts crawling out of the woodwork, a whole lot of paupers and a stonemason. Oh, and a very special bicycle mechanic, my  dear little Dad.

[goggy]

Well,didn't REALLYwant to let this particular cat out of the bag but,one of my lot,just the one,was a hat maker.
If this attract's any deleterious remark's from the 'nut gallery',Ishall hold my breathe 'til my face goes purple!!
                       Goggy.