What professions do you have a lot of?

[PaulaToo]

Oh joy, joy, joy! Just added a bit more to my tree...Fanny(of no name) has become Frances Harriss, and her Dad and Mum William and Elizabeth Harriss.
All anticipation...What was William's profession?
ANOTHER bloomin' carpenter. I'm surrounded by woodworkers(cutting it down, sawing it up or turning it into furniture) tailors and clerics!
I WANT MORE AG. LABS. I want to join the ag. lab. club!

[nanny jan]

Hi PaulaToo,

You can have some of my Ag Labs but I already have plenty of carpenters; don't have any tailors...........yet!


Nanny Jan

[jillruss]

Like most of us - lots of ag labs!!

Seems to be a bit regional - lots of gardeners in the south and Scotland( I knew I got it from somewhere). Lots of weavers in the industrial north. Also a few cordwainers in what's now Cumbria.

It's funny how the yeomen and gentlemen I've found seem to be back in the far distance so none of the wealth percolted through!

Oh and I've just discovered a bookbinder, so there must have been some literacy about!

Jill

[PaulaToo]

Strange, isn't it, how you seem to have a lot of the same profession. My woodworkers are on both sides of the family, in Pembroke and Oxfordshire. Tailors are Pembroke and Buckinghamshire. Also mine are all Tailors, no Dressmakers(propper dressmakers, not the other kind) and they are on both sides of the family.
Ag. labs. are very thin on the ground (forgive the pun) but that doesn't mean they had money. One Yeoman and a whole shower of Paupers, so much so, that I think I should claim Pauper as the occupation of that branch on the family tree.

[poppymilly]

on one side of my family throughout the 1800 they were ever watchmakers or brushmakers all living in london

[Elliebob]

A couple of my husband's family in Birmingham were bell hangers and lock smiths, followed by furniture polishers - then a taxidermist!

Ellen

[stoney]

On my mum's side - mainly stonemasons, although there was also a tea dealer!
On my Dad's side - miners and pit-head workers.

On hubby's side - gunsmiths/engravers, locomotive engineers (Indian Railways), and musicians !

[suey]

We could play Happy Families with this lot  Anyone wanna swop an ag lab for a baker or butcher. 
Has anyone got a candlestick maker?

Got really excited when I found great grandpa was an engine driver, but when I looked at the original image it had scrawled threshing machine after it...so, yet another ag lab !

I call them my 'son's of the soil', although there are one or two shoemakers, gamekeepers and blacksmiths among them. Of the females there are laundresses, charwomen and a great aunt wot 'owned a mangle' 

[PaulaToo]

Good for her, suey. I hope she had many pressing appointments.
But seriously, it isn't the sort of thing you even consider until you go into this family history stuff is it....
What was your ancestor's business...?
Oh, Rentamangle...
It's great, isn't it.