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

[Sisterjane]

my lot consists of the usual crop of ag labs and servants but today i found my paternal grandfather and he has the rather grand sounding occ of ! custom house officer!
 now what would he do?
JOE

[Magrat]

Hi,

I have all the usual ag labs, labourers, cotton weavers,winders,piecers etc, coal miners, also a butcher, a baker (no candlestick maker) and a bit more unusual a broom maker and an envelope folder! Gosh that sounds exciting.

Magrat

[ponytail]

my family seems to be all at sea I have

two Foyboat men
3 ships Pilots
and several dock labs.

and not to forget the landlubers
 a Smatering of Coalminers

Ponytail

[Amy K]

my lot consists of the usual crop of ag labs and servants but today i found my paternal grandfather and he has the rather grand sounding occ of ! custom house officer!
 now what would he do?
JOE

OOooh, Joe you lucky thing. Customs House Officers worked for Customs and Excise and their careers are (in theory) easy to trace. I have one in my tree who is, naturally, the exception to that rule.

I'll dig out my notes on tracing this occupation for you, if you like.

[Shanko]

I know someone who has an ancestor who was a Knock Knobbler haha! actually its the official name for a Dog Catcher

[TreeDigger]

I have a female Dutch ancestor whose last name literally translates as "the little whore".

You can safely assume I will NOT look into her profession 

[Amy K]

I have ....

...a customs officer....
...a fishmonger....
...a butcher....
...a poulterer...
....two stone masons....
...two jockeys...
...a pub landlady....
...a carpenter...
...a farmer...
numerous coal miners (which is the South Wales equivalent of an ag lab!!!..)
...a priest...
some sailors and soldiers

I have recently welcomed into the fold...

...an engine tender...
...a tailor...
and ...a cloth dealer!!

[TreeDigger]

Hmm, the little "sleeper"   I guess that was censored, but let's say her last name insinuated she was sleeping during the day and ermm, "working" by night.   

[Lo]

How's about this for the slightly unusual: Grandad was a rat catcher........................ not so unusual but you don't get too many of em married to a lady 'pig killer'!!!!!!!

Lo