Pages: [1] 2 3

Author Topic: I spent all my life as a boring clerk...  (Read 3234 times)

Offline RhondaCole

  • RootsChat Extra
  • **
  • Posts: 8
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
I spent all my life as a boring clerk...
« on: Sunday 27 October 19 11:10 GMT (UK) »
Frederick G Baker, of Leicester, appears on the 1939 England and Wales Register. He was a Hub Slagger Boots Nellie. Why couldn't I be one of them?
Rhonda

Offline rosie99

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 44,271
  • ALFIE 2009 - 2021 (Rosbercon Sky's the Limit)
    • View Profile
Re: I spent all my life as a boring clerk...
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 27 October 19 11:23 GMT (UK) »
Perhaps Ancestry need some someone to transcribe it properly.  The occupation relates to his employment with Boots and Shoes
   
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01ojo/
Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Offline groom

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 21,147
  • Me aged 3. Tidied up thanks to Wiggy.
    • View Profile
Re: I spent all my life as a boring clerk...
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 27 October 19 12:22 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: rosie99 on Sunday 27 October 19 11:23 GMT (UK)
Perhaps Ancestry need some someone to transcribe it properly.  The occupation relates to his employment with Boots and Shoes
   
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01ojo/

Find My Past didn't even attempt to transcribe it, they just put ? ? ?
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Offline rosie99

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 44,271
  • ALFIE 2009 - 2021 (Rosbercon Sky's the Limit)
    • View Profile
Re: I spent all my life as a boring clerk...
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 27 October 19 12:28 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: groom on Sunday 27 October 19 12:22 GMT (UK)
Quote from: rosie99 on Sunday 27 October 19 11:23 GMT (UK)
Perhaps Ancestry need some someone to transcribe it properly.  The occupation relates to his employment with Boots and Shoes
   
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01ojo/

Find My Past didn't even attempt to transcribe it, they just put ? ? ?

I have submitted a correction. :)    The surname appears to be Barker not Baker
Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Offline RhondaCole

  • RootsChat Extra
  • **
  • Posts: 8
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: I spent all my life as a boring clerk...
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 27 October 19 12:45 GMT (UK) »
Aha. I wondered why I couldn't find him on MyHeritage. But they don't give anything for his occupation: perhaps too difficult even for question marks.

I've also got a John Iliff who appears on the 1777 Militia List for Crick in Northamptonshire. He was a "hog gobler". I'm not sure I'd want to be one of them, even though nobody's ever been able to tell me what hog goblers did.

Rhonda

Offline davidft

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 4,209
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: I spent all my life as a boring clerk...
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 27 October 19 13:21 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: RhondaCole on Sunday 27 October 19 12:45 GMT (UK)
Aha. I wondered why I couldn't find him on MyHeritage. But they don't give anything for his occupation: perhaps too difficult even for question marks.

I've also got a John Iliff who appears on the 1777 Militia List for Crick in Northamptonshire. He was a "hog gobler". I'm not sure I'd want to be one of them, even though nobody's ever been able to tell me what hog goblers did.

Rhonda

maybe

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Hog-gobbler

 ::) ::) ::)
James Stott c1775-1850. James was born in Yorkshire but where? He was a stonemason and married Elizabeth Archer (nee Nicholson) in 1794 at Ripon. They lived thereafter in Masham. If anyone has any suggestions or leads as to his birthplace I would be interested to know. I have searched for it for years without success. Thank you.

Offline RhondaCole

  • RootsChat Extra
  • **
  • Posts: 8
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: I spent all my life as a boring clerk...
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 27 October 19 13:31 GMT (UK) »
Thank you, davidft. I hadn't come across that one but there was another, extraordinarily vulgar, definition a couple of years ago which I can no longer find. Perhaps it's been removed. I think it's safe to say neither definition would have been current as an "occupation" in rural Northamptonshire in 1777.
Rhonda

Offline Girl Guide

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 6,488
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: I spent all my life as a boring clerk...
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 27 October 19 14:07 GMT (UK) »
I think it should be Heel Slugger

Operate or tend a variety of machines to join, decorate, reinforce, or finish shoes and shoe parts.
Ashford: Somerset, London
England: Devon, London, New Zealand
Holdway: Wiltshire
Hooper: Bristol, Somerset
Knowling: Devon, London
Southcott: Devon, China
Strong: Wiltshire
Watson: Cambridgeshire
White: Bristol
Windo - Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire

Offline RhondaCole

  • RootsChat Extra
  • **
  • Posts: 8
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: I spent all my life as a boring clerk...
« Reply #8 on: Sunday 27 October 19 15:08 GMT (UK) »
I am new, but thank you all. In particular Rosie's link to occupations. What is a "Glory-hole tender"? It takes me back fifty years...
Pages: [1] 2 3