More Revelations from the 1911 Census

[Keith Sherwood]

My SHERWOOD great-grandparents actually produced NINE consecutive surviving boys before the first of their daughters was born.  Hannah SHERWOOD must have been mightily pleased to have at last got a bit of female company in her household.
Think I started a thread about it on here over 4 years ago, and nobody was able to match or beat that as an unusual sequence at that time...
keith

[DudleyWinchurch]

Thought I'd look for an occupation that is difficult to make a living at these days.

There were 14 people with the occupation of "Fencing Master", including two who could be a married couple.

I trawled a couple of the resulting names on G**gle and one came up with a description ... from my club, LTFC.  AMAZING  

[checked and Agnes is a wife, is she a wife and a fencing master, I wonder, or just the wife of a fencing master?]

[Cas (stallc)]

This thread has made me laugh, who says family history is boring!!!!!

lol Keith my great grandparents had 19 children, not all survived, but it was a mix of boys/girls.  Am SURE Hannah was glad to see that girl born after 9 boys!

Cas 

[Mean_genie]

Are you as disappointed as I am to find that in 1911 'hooker' covers a variety of occupations, mainly in factories and mines?

But then again, about half of them are female, so you never know...

Mean_genie

[Nick29]

I stand to be corrected, but I'm fairly sure that "hooker" is an American slang term for prostitute which would not have been in common use here in 1911.  We've only been using it since the 1940's when American airmen brought the word over, and it's been used in American movies since the 1950's.

[Darren S]

Are you as disappointed as I am to find that in 1911 'hooker' covers a variety of occupations, mainly in factories and mines?

But then again, about half of them are female, so you never know...

Mean_genie

Just did a search and there are 42 people with the occupation "Prostitute", all of them female. The youngest ones are 19, and the oldest, 75! 

[Brie]

4 trapeze artists
6 lion tamers
3 con men
and
36 princesses including one Baggy Kramer, female, aged 10 months and living in Holborn.

This game could be addictive
Brie

[Brie]

Interestingly at the early part of the Labour movement there are 33 shop stewards.

Totally unrelated
5 communists
5 bullies, 2 of whom live in Grimsby
1 swindler, an 18 yr old girl
and 23 spies, a lot of whom were in Lancashire. I suppose there were industrial spies but ...

Must go and do some work
Brie

[JenB]

36 princesses including one Baggy Kramer, female, aged 10 months and living in Holborn.

I see Baggy's male siblings were also princesses.

There were also 39 princes, of whom 9 were women including the splendidly named Florence Nightingale Hignett.