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

[goggy]

Taeama!
Please swap this mail with Carol would you?I accept full blame for the foul up!!
Now then,where was I??Ah yes,in the poo again!!
My extended fore bears have, it seems had it all one time or t,other.Iknow from memory what one G,Ma had.Sadly,interest in Wills and hierlooms was lacking until recent years,mainly stimulated by Genealogy hunting!
Just keep your hopes up,to travel hopefully is sometimes better than the arrival.
                    Cheers,Goggy.

[goggy]

G,Day ALL!
One of my Family names turns out to be derived from the occupation involved in,so,let me ask anyone from a mining community for a bit of a leg up, Yorkshire, .Cumbria,Tyneside,areas are involved
so dont go away!
Bannister,Bansted,Benstead,Binstead,all other spellings,probably something to do with pit ponies fodder in earlier years.
Any one got an inkling??
                           Goggy.

[Paul E]

Bannister,Bansted,Benstead,Binstead,all other spellings,probably something to do with pit ponies fodder in earlier years.
Any one got an inkling??
                           Goggy.

Hi Goggy

Not sure whether this helps, but I used to live in a house called Bannister Hey in Claughton, near Preston.  I think there is some reference to a Bannister family living in the area out there on Google.

cheers

Paul

[lizdb]

Just paid my first visit to the 1861 census index on 1837online - and found a 'Pocket book maker'

[helenw]

Most of my family are all Ag Labs, Labs or servants of some kind but we found one possibly interesting link.

In Spalding Linconshire the Hames family were Ropemakers in the 1860s and their daughter worked at the prison, as in those days they would have hanged people for serious offenses the family could've provided the labour as well as the hanging rope!!

[suziet]

My best one yet has to be from 1851

Alice Wardrobe 79 occupation: KEEPS A MANGLE!

Have also got:

Boot & Shoe Makers
Solicitors
Watchmakers & Jewellers
Corn Merchants
Dress Makers
Dinosaur Hunters!
Gem Setters

But Alice gave us the best chuckle!

[Willow 4873]

Most of my family are all Ag Labs, Labs or servants of some kind but we found one possibly interesting link.

In Spalding Linconshire the Hames family were Ropemakers in the 1860s and their daughter worked at the prison, as in those days they would have hanged people for serious offenses the family could've provided the labour as well as the hanging rope!!

Blimey Helen I've heard of keeping in the family!

Have you found the coffin maker yet? lol

Willow x

[goggy]

G,Day Paul,
been into the Bannisters closets thanks m,dear,this evolution of the job name into the Family name is another slice of the investigative cake!Takes me way,way off course,but,once the bug bites its best to let the fever run its course!!
As mentioned in an earlier post,Im a dilettante compared to other members of Rootschat,the broad brush suits me.
Thanks again,Goggy.

[amcquaid]

-Cardinal & Chancellor of Scotland (David Beaton....He was murdered in May 1545 

  for ordering the execution of George Wishart (burned at the stake).
-A couple of Archbishops
-A rope spinner who hung himself from a tree one Sunday morning
-A Gentleman's butler / gameskeeper who worked for the same family for 86 years