What is the most interesting occupation in your family tree? (#1: locked)

[KathyM]

All the usual Ag Labs, coal miners, but lots of pub landlords, barmaids...and my favourite  a town crier & bill poster

[Annahannah]

Along with the Ag Labs who moved to London and became bricklayers and gas stokers, I have laundresses, cleaning women, and at least one inseminator.  Sounds like we didn't get far away from the farm.

However, I also have an electrical engineer who did the wiring for the Apollo projects, EXCEPT #13! 

Anna

[Hackstaple]

My maternal grandfather was a song-writer [snobbishly described as a "composer"]. He appeared on the northern music halls and performed comic monologues [that seemed to entitle him to claim to be an Author"]. He also sang and was widely credited with having composed a song called something like "His Day was Done" - I have the words somewhere. He didn't - it was another chap.
He died in France during the Great War in 1917.
Even more remarkable is the fact that his youngest daughter was born 2 years after he died! She even followed the same type of occupation as she sang and played piano in clubs for donkeys years.

[nooshie]

 

I have some starch factory workers, two cordwainers, a teazle grower, mantua maker and a monthly nurse!!

[Fitty]

Nooshie, whats a Mantua Maker?  sounds interesting.

The most interesting one i've come across so far is a Glass Blower for Lead Crystal.   Just wish he'd left somthing to pass down through the family  lol

Grandad was a Rat Catcher but everyone else were Miners or Ag Labs. 

[Jackienock]

Strange, I too have a CASTRATOR, of horses I believe and rather proudly a PROFESSOR OF MUSIC

[Hackstaple]

A mantuamaker made ladies' cloaks after a style reputedly once in vogue in the city of Mantua, Italy.
A cordwainer, in case anyone needs to know, is a shoemaker in fine leathers as opposed to a cobbler who only repaired shoes.
A teazle grower would be a farmer or small holder who grew the prickly teazel plant which was used in the woollens industry to raise the nap on cloth - g-d knows why!
I can't quite imagine what a monthly nurse did. Perhaps monthly district inspections?

[carol8353]

A monthly nurse I have just discovered ,was a nurse who served for a month or some short time, esp. one which attends women after childbirth.

As ALL us family historians know there were plenty of babies being born for this lady to make a good living at it! 


Carol

[Sandie X]

Lord Mayor of London and Keeper of the Tower, and Castle Builder.