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

[Arranroots]

While doing a look-up recently, I discovered a young lady who gave her trade as "ostrich feather manufacturer"

Think about it...   

Arranroots 

[Llwyd]

My grandfather,whilst not having any particularly interesting occupations,certainly had plenty of different ones:
1891 census--- Pupil teacher,school.
1899 marriage cert---Railway guard.
1901 census---Ticket examiner,railway.
1902 childs birth cert---Relieving officer.
1910 childs birth cert---Workhouse master.
Then bet Feb 1930 and March 1932 he kept a pub.
1944 death cert---Finance clerk to a county agricultural committee.
Whilst pursuing these occupations he also moved around the country quite a bit......Montgomeryshire,Cardinganshire,Warwickshire,Salop,Cheshire and Flintshire.

[andycadman]

My latest discovery which I had to look up was a:

fellmonger

a leather dresser - someone who scrapes the fur off skins.

later he was a fellmonger courier.

Andy

[nutkin]

I am so excited.  I have my first saloon keeper in the US.  He goes along with my beer house owner in the UK.  What a bunch of lushes in my tree...

[goggy]

Poppies,just caught Arrowsmith flying past on my daily check!Do you have an Irish connection a Cook for a family of Pendergast,s?She was my Step G,Ma, supposedly an ex aerialist injured in a circus acccident,who lost her husband in China,during the Boxer rioting.
 That is just from memory,no paper work,no family help,not just a brick wall but a dungeon!!
Cheer,s
                Goggy.

[Erato]

Alas, not my family but I found a minstrel, a clog dancer, a frog catcher, and an Indian docteress in San Francisco.

[goggy]

Well,Chaps+Chapesses,of the name I am chasing,one Slave.Who must have descended from a family transported in the late 1600,s-early 1700,s.British West Indies.Not very nice at all,and the name still survives there.
                        Goggy

[Linda_J]

Hi all

Mostly Agricultural Labourers
A few Paper mill workers
Brass moulder
A Sawyer who doubled as coffin maker
Gamekeeper
Train Driver
Signalman
River bailiff who later became a river watcher!
Coal carter
Cooper Brewer

A couple I spotted while browsing was a Thisle digger, and a Night soil carter.

Linda

[goggy]

I,m suprised more slaves havent popped up in this forum.Or" Bonded persons",putting it into the polite vernacular of the times.Whole families were transported to work the plantations overseas.That inclusion in family history would I suppose,just add to the hunt!!
                 Cheers,Goggy