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Re: Multi-tasking ancestors
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 16 March 17 15:04 GMT (UK) »
One ancestor was a soap boiler and shoe black at the same time. He always seemed to be on the breadline, he was an army pensioner so probably got a measly pension after 25 years service.
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LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain

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Re: Multi-tasking ancestors
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 16 March 17 16:07 GMT (UK) »

I have one in the 1881 census who gives his occupation as "Local Methodist Preacher, Provision Dealer & Forge Engineer"

Wonder what he did in his spare time.  :)

 

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Re: Multi-tasking ancestors
« Reply #11 on: Wednesday 24 May 17 03:20 BST (UK) »
One of my ancestors switch to being a "Pauper" lol.

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Re: Multi-tasking ancestors
« Reply #12 on: Wednesday 24 May 17 13:27 BST (UK) »
My multi tasking ancestor was called Thomas Roberts as well. Not very helpful and it gave me many headaches trying to prove I had the same person.
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LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain

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Re: Multi-tasking ancestors
« Reply #13 on: Thursday 25 May 17 16:33 BST (UK) »
There are loads of Ancestry Trees where one of my ancestors is hijacked, and two different families blended together - wonder who copied who? As "my" man and his wife was an Innkeeper in Dumfries throughout his adult life, and the other man seemed to do bookbinding / publishing etc, and started in Stockport, ending up in East Lancs, I can only imagine that lazily someone grabbed at the first "Thomas with wife Janet" and slapped down the first censuses offered, without thinking. Otherwise, he would've been a busy lad, in two places at once over 40 years, two sep birthplaces, and wives, and two broods of children, one lot born in Dumfries, the others in Stockport!
BUt I'm sure he can't claim to have been multi-tasking as an Innkeeper/ Bookbinder, etc.
Threlfall (Southport), Isherwood (lancs & Canada), Newbould + Topliss(Derby), Keating & Cummins (Ireland + lancs), Fisher, Strong& Casson (all Cumberland) & Downie & Bowie, Linlithgow area Scotland . Also interested in Leigh& Burrows,(Lancashire) Griffiths (Shropshire & lancs), Leaver (Lancs/Yorks) & Anderson(Cumberland and very elusive)

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Re: Multi-tasking ancestors
« Reply #14 on: Thursday 25 May 17 17:04 BST (UK) »
Cattle dealer and publican.
Cravens of Wakefield, Alnwick, Banchory-Ternan
Houghtons and Harrises of Melbourne, Derbyshire
Taylors of Chadderton/Oldham, Lancashire
MacGillivrays of Mull
Macdonalds of Dundee

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Re: Multi-tasking ancestors
« Reply #15 on: Thursday 25 May 17 17:45 BST (UK) »
 General store
Draper traveller in 1900 and 1901
Family all in draper dressmaker trade
postcard seller artist in 1906
Salesman 1911
Debt collector and
False teeth salesman in1915
Working in armaments 1916
Labourer in 1920

 Yes its the same man !
I can see that collecting debts whilevtravelling to remote places in wales could be a useful combination
Wonder how he got into teeth and armaments ...
Roberts,Fellman.Macdermid smith jones,Bloch,Irvine,Hallis Stevenson

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Re: Multi-tasking ancestors
« Reply #16 on: Thursday 25 May 17 17:48 BST (UK) »
I thought I.d got 2 separate families with bakers and sailors

But eventually found the ships records and father and son were ships baker  s
Roberts,Fellman.Macdermid smith jones,Bloch,Irvine,Hallis Stevenson

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Re: Multi-tasking ancestors
« Reply #17 on: Friday 26 May 17 08:40 BST (UK) »
brigidmac:  I presume you mean "ship's baker"?? ???
Cravens of Wakefield, Alnwick, Banchory-Ternan
Houghtons and Harrises of Melbourne, Derbyshire
Taylors of Chadderton/Oldham, Lancashire
MacGillivrays of Mull
Macdonalds of Dundee
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