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Offline hutch

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Re: What is the most interesting occupation in you family tree?
« Reply #171 on: Friday 07 January 05 10:02 GMT (UK) »
coffee smeller --mmmmm!
and coprolite digger (fossils - I think)
Albon - Chelsea, Bedfordshire,
Hutchinson - Islington
Warwick,
Spicer, Barnes, Hawkins, Ironside, Squibb, Drake, Pople - Dorset,
Adams - Somerset
Drover, Eggs, Bartlett, Gillingham, Rogers, Durdall - Christchurch, Hampshire
Cotton, Bird, North, Foster - West Midlands
Steel, Jeffcock, Mangham, Stacey, Hill, Pagden, Storey - Sheffield, Yorkshire

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Re: What is the most interesting occupation in you family tree?
« Reply #172 on: Friday 07 January 05 17:43 GMT (UK) »
I MAY be able to lay claim to a Ship's Captain! I have yet to prove my hunch, but I may be descended from Bartholomew Kitcher Captain of HMS Halfe Moon, which saw action during the Anglo-dutch Wars of the 1600's!!
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Re: What is the most interesting occupation in you family tree?
« Reply #173 on: Friday 07 January 05 17:46 GMT (UK) »
How about a 'blanket raiser' -
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Ardill,  Bourke/Burke, Bellwood, Bridge, Cain, Church, Cragg,  Dennell, Dunning, Gough, Haslam, Holmes, Jessop, Kidson/Kitson, Knowles, Markwick, Martin, Munden, Nickerson, Robinson,  Seddon, Whittle, Varley & Walpole.

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Re: What is the most interesting occupation in you family tree?
« Reply #174 on: Friday 07 January 05 17:48 GMT (UK) »
I've also got a "rag grinder"...
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Re: What is the most interesting occupation in you family tree?
« Reply #175 on: Friday 07 January 05 18:20 GMT (UK) »
I always fewlt sorry for one of my families - most of the girls worked in the mills - but one was a 'chocolate packer' - I wonder if she got samples ?


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Ardill,  Bourke/Burke, Bellwood, Bridge, Cain, Church, Cragg,  Dennell, Dunning, Gough, Haslam, Holmes, Jessop, Kidson/Kitson, Knowles, Markwick, Martin, Munden, Nickerson, Robinson,  Seddon, Whittle, Varley & Walpole.

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Re: What is the most interesting occupation in you family tree?
« Reply #176 on: Saturday 08 January 05 21:03 GMT (UK) »

Found another Labourer for my collection yesterday - in a Jam and Sweet Factory !

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Re: What is the most interesting occupation in you family tree?
« Reply #177 on: Saturday 08 January 05 21:32 GMT (UK) »


I've got a "Card Maker" - don't suppose thats playing cards - expect its for a factory machine - but bet he was good at Pontoon!!

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Re: What is the most interesting occupation in you family tree?
« Reply #178 on: Monday 10 January 05 21:37 GMT (UK) »
My GF was a food sampler  :o yummy what a great job  ;D
Whitchurch, Westminster / Buckinghamshire
Cooper,     Westminster
Pollard     Surrey
Earley,  Holborn London
Bruce,  London
Kangeisser  London
Lawlor, Widnes Lancashire
Hagan   Widnes Lancashire

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Re: What is the most interesting occupation in you family tree?
« Reply #179 on: Monday 10 January 05 22:59 GMT (UK) »
HI

RICHARD HEALD SHERIFF OF NOTTINGHAM, I LIKE THAT ONE. A BLANCHE HEALD WHO WOULD NOT TAKE KING HENRY THE EIGHTHS OATH(TO BE A PROTESTANT I ASSUME) NOT AN OCCUPATION AS SUCH.

AND MY DEAR GRANDAD WHO WAS A SOLDIER IN BOTH WARSANS LOST A LUNG AT DUNKIRK AND WAS CARRIED OF IN A STRETCHER,,HE IS PRETTY INTERESTING TO ME(1896-1968)
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