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Offline Lloydy

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**COMPLETED***New occupation in my Tree!
« on: Tuesday 20 March 07 12:17 GMT (UK) »
I have today received my GG Grandparents marriage certificate from Welshpool Record Office, Powys, and it only took 4 days to get here!!!

My Welsh tree has been inundated with lots of Ag Labs, Weavers, Spinners or Miners, but here's the exciting bit ;D

My GG Grandmother's father is shown on the certificate as being a FRENCH POLISHER!!!!!!!!

I'm so pleased ;D ;D ;D

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Bennett, Owen, Owens, Hudson, Crisp, Challinor/Challoner/Chaloner, Lewis, James, Richards, Simon, Mills, Evans, Trow, Davies, Turner, Beaton/Betton, Lloyd, Jenkins, Evans.....and a ton of JONES!!!!

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Re: New occupation in my Tree!
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 20 March 07 14:01 GMT (UK) »
I've got a bottom polisher !!!

My fathers occupation when he was apprenticed to a shoemaker ... the bottom of new bespoke leather shoes were highly polished ... and that was his task !  (Must have been dangerous on slippy pavements, to have a polished bottom !)
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C'wall/Devon/France/CANADA (Barkerville, B.C.): Pomeroy/Pomerai/Pomroy
Som'set: Clark(e) Fry
Durham: Law(e)
London: Hanham Poplett
Lancs/Cheshire/CANADA (Kelowna, B.C. & Sask): Stubbs Walmesley

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Re: New occupation in my Tree!
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 20 March 07 15:06 GMT (UK) »
It's just nice to come across something different for a change :D 

I find Ag Labs and Weavers rather boring :-\
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Bennett, Owen, Owens, Hudson, Crisp, Challinor/Challoner/Chaloner, Lewis, James, Richards, Simon, Mills, Evans, Trow, Davies, Turner, Beaton/Betton, Lloyd, Jenkins, Evans.....and a ton of JONES!!!!

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Re: New occupation in my Tree!
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 20 March 07 15:12 GMT (UK) »
How posh to have a french polisher!

My best is a whipper in!

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Re: New occupation in my Tree!
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 20 March 07 21:17 GMT (UK) »

I thought it sounded a bit posh, so now I'm on the hunt to see what I can find out about him.
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Bennett, Owen, Owens, Hudson, Crisp, Challinor/Challoner/Chaloner, Lewis, James, Richards, Simon, Mills, Evans, Trow, Davies, Turner, Beaton/Betton, Lloyd, Jenkins, Evans.....and a ton of JONES!!!!

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Re: New occupation in my Tree!
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 20 March 07 23:35 GMT (UK) »
Ooh, I know just how you feel, Lloydy.  My tree is busting with Ag Labs and I recently struck gold with a "Bath Chair Proprietor" in Eastbourne.  Pleased as Punch, I was!!!
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Re: New occupation in my Tree!
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 20 March 07 23:41 GMT (UK) »
I have my share of weavers and Ag Labs, but also have a Band Sawyer, a Silver chaser, coal miners and a couple of coast guards, would love something really unusual like your French Polisher but will be happy to find a few of the brick walls even if they are Ag Labs lol

Best wishes

Mo
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Re: New occupation in my Tree!
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 21 March 07 01:07 GMT (UK) »
My GG Grandfather and some of his sons were French polishers.  It really can't be posh at all if it's in my tree! :P

I've searched on google about it before.  There are several sites showing how to do it, giving an idea about how it was done back then.

Andrew

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Re: New occupation in my Tree!
« Reply #8 on: Wednesday 21 March 07 18:10 GMT (UK) »
I'm afraid it's not very posh at all.  The people buying the furnature might have been posh.  It is just a highly glossy finish to tables and things.  My ancestor was a French Polisher and he lived in a very poor area of London.

I have a family of rope-makers and found a very good description and diagrams in "The Book of trades or library of useful arts" written in 1818.  My ancestor died from being hit on the head by a tar barrell which was needed for the rope making.

My best one is the soldier who lost part of his foot in the West Indies.

Sylviaann
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Norfolk: Gooch, Loveday, Lake, Betts
Suffolk: Gooch, Crosby, Turner
Hampshire: Laws, Burrows
Kent: Beer
Jersey: Barette, de Gruchy
East London: Middleton, Gower, O'Farrell, Smith, Weston
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