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Offline Zelley

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Re: What professions do you have a lot of?
« Reply #81 on: Tuesday 22 August 06 08:25 BST (UK) »
Quote from: goggy on Sunday 20 August 06 04:23 BST (UK)
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. ;) ;D 8) 8)

did you know that Emile Griffith, considered by many to be the best boxer of the Sixties was a hat maker before stepping through the ropes and tossing leather.
Part of that was covered in the movie documentary "Ring of Fire -
the Emile Griffith Story"
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Dorset, London, Warwick, East Anglia, Kent,  Devon
North Wales          

The ancestors lived here and there, in many scattered
places, with various occupations

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Re: What professions do you have a lot of?
« Reply #82 on: Tuesday 22 August 06 08:32 BST (UK) »
Quote from: MarieC on Sunday 20 August 06 10:16 BST (UK)
Quote from: Gadget on Sunday 20 August 06 09:52 BST (UK)
of course, the ones we all have - ag labs.

I haven't found any ag labs yet!!!  Maybe there are some way back, but I'm back quite a way on most lines, and nary an ag lab!  Lightermen - they are my honoured working class group!

MarieC
I don't have any ag labourers yet either - I thought I must be doing it wrong!  Good to hear that others have an absence of aforementioned!
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Re: What professions do you have a lot of?
« Reply #83 on: Tuesday 22 August 06 09:41 BST (UK) »
I'm always pleased to find something other than Ag Labs!  Don't forget that without them, though your lot wouldn't have eaten!!!

Kerry
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Re: What professions do you have a lot of?
« Reply #84 on: Tuesday 22 August 06 09:57 BST (UK) »
Ag labs,lacemakers,tailors and dressmakers :)
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Re: What professions do you have a lot of?
« Reply #85 on: Tuesday 22 August 06 10:04 BST (UK) »
I've got a vast range - A is for accountants, ag labs, architects, attorneys; B is for bakers, bankers, bookkeepers, barristers, blacksmiths....Y is for yeoman, yeoman and yet another yeoman.

In terms of trends, I've got a good smattering of C of E clergy and, in my Yorkshire lines, shedloads of people who made their living in the wool trade: wool/worsted spinners, carders, piecers, sorters, staplers, manufacturers, traders, merchants, mill owners etc etc.

Also (in London and Birmingham lines) a surprising number of attorneys, barristers, magistrates, J.P.s and one solitary judge - I'm a barrister myself but had no idea there was any family history of it before I started.

Anna
Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)

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Re: What professions do you have a lot of?
« Reply #86 on: Tuesday 22 August 06 10:17 BST (UK) »
Anna

Isn't it nice to find professions and other things in your family research that affirm who you are and what you do??

MarieC  ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Re: What professions do you have a lot of?
« Reply #87 on: Tuesday 22 August 06 10:32 BST (UK) »
Quote from: MarieC on Tuesday 22 August 06 10:17 BST (UK)

Isn't it nice to find professions and other things in your family research that affirm who you are and what you do??


It is really nice, and makes research a great deal easier when all the records are on my doorstep in Lincoln's Inn Library.  But it does make me wonder how much choice I really had in the matter and how much was pre-determined by the genes - spooky!

Anna
Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)

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Re: What professions do you have a lot of?
« Reply #88 on: Tuesday 22 August 06 13:23 BST (UK) »
On one side of my family they were mostly fisherman and a couple were lifeboat men. They all live in Aldeburgh Suffolk, even my Grandad who was bought up in Hampton Middlesex loved fishing.
Pallants from Aldeburgh Suffolk
Earles from Cornwall
Seldons from Cornwall
Hammonds from Cambridge
Turners from Chertsey

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Re: What professions do you have a lot of?
« Reply #89 on: Tuesday 22 August 06 13:28 BST (UK) »
Ag Labs - but there were some gas fitters too!! I got SERIOUSLY excited when I saw that. Also found a hairdresser the other day. That was almost too much excitement!! I nearly fell off my chair  ;D :o ::)
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