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

[genjunction]

Well to go with the hangman from another side of the family. Needless to say these are all in-laws !!!!

We have a second hand clothes dealer that was framed for attempting to murder the Primeminister of England.  She was a sufferagette and know to the Pankhursts.  By all accounts she was a formidable woman and from seeing her photo in the papers - I for one on a dark night would not like to meet her   

But on another side - these are all inlaws, the main lines are boring.  But the inlaws we have a couple of Sir's who were Knighted for there service to medicine .

What happened to the direct lines, well we have a goldsmith who became a Burgh in a Morayshire town, salt hawkers, miners, a policeman or 2 a couple of soldiers KIA.  Quite mundane really oh, there is an exemplory  family historian ( no that is not in my mind ) I was told that the other day 

Carol

[cfmshrops]

 
I want to reply to Suey cos in my family I searched all my Dads and got Farm Labs, Ag Labs and Labs....
I did my Grandmothers and got miners ..... got a bit better Licenced Victuallers and a Colliery Owner.
Then I did my Mums....................In the same family I have bricklayers labourer, railway worker, hawker, traveller and nun oh and I forgot fitter, upholsterer, errand boy and Dom servant - I don't know if I'm comin or goin!!! All in different places- I could spend a lifetime searching these people!!!
And I have only just started ...................................

[Aragina]

My favorite belongs to James Bishop father of Richard Bishop born 14 Feb 1843 in Kings Lynn     Itinerant Comedian   

[RJ_Paton]

Well the latest two to add to my mixed bag are

grate fitter
and
hook tier in Fishing Tackle shop ..... at least its different for mid 19th C 

[frederickay]

amongst the gamekeepers ,Shepard's and mattress makers i have an artists model/muse.
exciting one would say thinking beautiful formal portraits.
no my aristocratic half Spanish ancestor was a artist model /muse for the bi-sexual opium smoking ,erotic (read borderline porn ) misogynist artist Fuseli.
they are fantastic but not quite what we imagined a counts daughter to be doing.
suits us tho,and always exciting to talk about. frederickay

[griz]

As well as the previously mentioned 'Scupper', I did, for a while, think I had a most interesting ancestor as he was down as a 'French Publisher. ' It sounded a bit naughty to me, like  Fredrickay's connection to Fuseli.  Yet it was different,  and I mused about what he may have  published. 

I admit I was a little disapointed to find he was actually a French Polisher. It was one of so many mistakes in transcription.

 Oh, and there was a chap who was in the 2nd Regiment of the Life Guards. He guarded William IV then Victoria when she became Queen.  That's sort of dashing and romantic I think.

 I wonder what he would think now if he knew the real king of England is living in Australia: King Michael, a Plantangenet.

[mike4301]

How about a Marine Store Dealers manager??
I was told it was a Gypsy term for a scrap dealer. Mike

[M.T.H]

The most interesting occupation in my family tree would have to be, Frogman Spy!.......it's true.

My ggrandmother's nephew was Commander Lionel 'Buster' Crabb who dissapeared in very mysterious circumstances in the 1950's,and was never seen again.

It's a fascinating story and quite a few books have been written about him.I wonder if anyone else has a frogman spy in the family?

Mick

[suey]

How about a Marine Store Dealers manager??
I was told it was a Gypsy term for a scrap dealer. Mike

Mike, I must make a note of that - I found a Philadelphia Carter in Lewes who I hoped was one of mine with just such an occupation.

cfmshrops - keep going - it does get better - I do have a Laundryman, a Gamekeeper and a Great Aunt who 'Owned a Mangle'