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

[MrsLizzy]

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.

Long live King Michael, say I!  (Got a soft spot for a Michael!)   

[griz]

Me too, MrsLizzy

 Its quite exciting finding a Plantagenet that has a more legitimate claim to the throne that the present occupants.

Its like going back in history when they were always scrapping about who was the rightful heir, and eliminating the competition.

It is interesting to speculate what the history of England would have been like with a different array of kings and queens  in our past.  Imagine!  no Henry VIII,   no Charles 1, so no civil war? No puritan influence,  no Victoria, so how different would the 1800s have been? 

[MrsLizzy]

I've always fancied the HOSE off Richard III!  I always say the great thing about being in love with a man who's been dead for 500 years is:  you don't have to meet his parents!   

[griz]

ROFL,   Mrs Griz

[MrsLizzy]

No good thinking the Reformation wouldn't have happened though, because it was already happening.  Henry VIII tried to use it for his own political ends, but it was already happening all over Europe.  Without Henry its development in England would just have been a lot slower. 

I think What If history is quite interesting.  What if Richard had won at the Battle of Bosworth?  What if Edward VI had lived to grow up healthy and marry and have sons of his own?  What if, God help us, Mary and Philip had actually had a child?  Maybe What Ifs aren't such a good idea after all!   

[Amy K]

I have come across someone who goves their occupation as a rippier

This was in a will from the 1500's. Basically it was a perosn who "sold fresh water fish at the markets or maker and seller of baskets "

[griz]

I wonder if there was ever one called Jack

[MrsLizzy]

I've mentioned before that my great great grandfather was a handsome hansom cab driver - he actually worked in the Mile End/Whitechapel area during the time of the Whitechapel Murders!  My great grandmother was born in Mile End in 1886, so she was about 2 years old at the time of the murders.

 

[suzard]

I have a gggg aunt who was a "knitter of worsted stockings" and her brother was a "knocker upper of people in service"
I also have a "lamp lighter" who 10 years later had graduated to a "rag and bone man"
The one I like the most is a very honest ggg aunt who describes her occupation as "Paramour houskeeper"-not much time for houskeeping as she had 9 illegitimate children!!!!