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

[possum_pie]

One of mine had occupation listed as Lunatic!  Would that have been a full tim job do you think??

[Paul E]

    Depends if he was a professional or just an amateur!

Paul

[flyby]

How about these. A Tricker at Projectile Factory, Several Cowkeepers, Medalist?, Pressman, Die Sinker. These are the most interesting of my lot, dont know what most of them mean though.
                                   Sue

[indiapaleale]

I could not believe what the brother of my 4x great grandmother did!


Wait for it ............drum roll.......

He was  The Surgeon General of the American Army under George Washington

Tada.......

His name was Robert Wellford and I am still in shock!

India, from a long line of ag labs, brush makers, publicans and A Surgeon General!

[suey]

  I've got another labourer this time in the Chalk Pits, makes a change from Ag Labs I 'spose 
Suey

[AngelaR]

My favourite is 'Feather Sorter' . Every other male in that branch of the family for generations was a sawyer, apart from one coal merchant and a wheelwright. Lighter work I suppose....

Angela

[sammidav]

Hi I have a lot of ancestors from the tool making and forging trades around the turn of the century - one of my great uncles was a torpedo case turner!

There are some straw plaiters too (see above)! (further back in that same branch of the family) - apparently it's something to do with making straw hats.

Sam

[drewsankie]

I think i have some nice occupations in my lot
A Dealer or Chapman
A Victualler
A Cordwainer
A Shoe Laster
A Boot Laster
A Shoe Rivetter
A Machine Closer
Wholesale Boot Manufacturer
Shoemaker
Shoe Stitch Hand
A Carpenter
A Clicker
Cooperage
Theater Manager
Courier Driver
Draper
A Bookbinder
Accountant to a Brewery!
Woodman.
And i think the best one of the lot a Scholar at the age of 8 WEEKS ! Start early i say !
Ian Markie

[jinks]

In my Family I have plenty of Farmers and
Overlookers, I found an Steam Engine Maker
and became all excited.
My Father is a train enthusiast.

I rang him up all excited telling him we have an
ancestor who made train engines, only to realise
further down the line it did not mean this.
 

I have a hen-penner, not quite sure what this is
but I guess it is someone who farms hens,
but it sounds weird