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Re: What is the most interesting occupation in your family tree?
« Reply #324 on: Tuesday 12 April 05 23:12 BST (UK) »
  cordwainer   
  tailoress
  currier
  master engine smith ( lord mayor of london designate)
  maltsters clerk
  shipping clerk
  printer/compositor
  musician
  carman
  trunkmaker
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Chalmers Musselburgh/Edinburgh
Jury Stepney/Whitechapel /Gt Yarmouth, Norwich Norfolk
Dawson Falkirk
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Moffat musselburgh/Leytonstone/Wanstead
Fordham  Lewes/ Cambs
Stevens Sussex
Buchan. St Ninians/Edinburgh
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Re: What is the most interesting occupation in your family tree?
« Reply #325 on: Wednesday 13 April 05 10:26 BST (UK) »
A bit boring but here goes.....

about 200 ag labs!!   surprise surprise!!!

mobile grocer
blacksmith
organist
church warden
plate layer
millar
wheelwright
farmer
horse man
tailor
traction engine driver
Parkin-Crowle/Epworth
Tune-Crowle
Coultard-Crowle
Clements-Garthorpe/Swinefleet/Suffolk
Brown-Whitgift/Sutton-le-marsh/Anderby
Worsley-Garthorpe/Luddington
Graham-Walkeringham/Swinefleet/Whitgift/Reedness
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Meggitt-Lincoln/Saxilby
Jude-Lincoln/Scunthorpe

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Re: What is the most interesting occupation in your family tree?
« Reply #326 on: Wednesday 13 April 05 15:17 BST (UK) »
Have just received a marriage certificate of 1850 for my gt-gt-gt-grandparents.  Discovered there that my gt-gt-gt-gt-grandfather Charles Gruby White was an undertaker - this is definitely a first for our family...
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Re: What is the most interesting occupation in your family tree?
« Reply #327 on: Saturday 16 April 05 09:21 BST (UK) »
I also have an ancestor who married a coffin maker.
My most intersting has to be a wheelwright who became a schoolteacher and founded a school in a belltower.
As his ancestor i have been invited to the school for a special service and see children lay flowers on his grave...
I also have a duckmaker, ( I believe it was sailcloth on barges but it is more interesting if you let your imagination run wild.
I also have 2 seamstresses 'mens shirts(unemployed)' and 'ladies knickers'. It was obviously better to be in ladies knickers so to speak..
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Re: What is the most interesting occupation in your family tree?
« Reply #328 on: Saturday 16 April 05 17:21 BST (UK) »

Oh! how I wish he was one of mine - 1851

George Jellehort age 28, a Medical Botanist Practioner of Dr Coffins Botanical System of Medicine.


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Re: What is the most interesting occupation in your family tree?
« Reply #329 on: Tuesday 26 April 05 11:32 BST (UK) »
Heres a few of my family occupations.
Ag lab,cattleman,stevedore,railway guard,railway signalman,cordwainer,gardener,bricklayer,shipwright,servants,lacemakers,cook,
bookseller,footman,drayman,needlewoman and a glover shop worker.I imagine thats something to do with gloves.The list goes on.
wilkins,moors,cooper,palmer,nix,rawlins,aries/aris,haddocks,coxhead (oxfordshire)
clasby,brooker,bartlett,snelgrove,harfield,
goddard,taylor,evans(hampshire)
moss,sanders,
childs(bedfordshire/Northamptonshire)
boswell(london)
Brimley(London,Bedfordshire)

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Re: What is the most interesting occupation in your family tree?
« Reply #330 on: Monday 02 May 05 17:10 BST (UK) »
Our only achiever was Thomas Clifford who became a headmaster aged 29.
Others were:-coachman,art metal worker.marine store dealer (in Brum?),glass manipulator,bedsteadmaker,pubs trade paddy stoker? house agent, Sacristan of St. Chads Cathedral,gunmakers clerk (I wonder if he ever got fired....sorry)
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Re: What is the most interesting occupation in your family tree?
« Reply #331 on: Tuesday 03 May 05 15:19 BST (UK) »
Whilst looking for someone else in the 1881 census, I found a 16yrs old boy who was described as a servant.However,his occupation was given as ODD BOY.
Makes yer wonder don't it........ :-\ :-\
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Re: What is the most interesting occupation in your family tree?
« Reply #332 on: Sunday 08 May 05 01:54 BST (UK) »
I have just found a 'cow hornkeeper'!!  Also a fancy dress finisher and a woolen bag sorter.... how excitng is that compared to me.... a boring accountant!!

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