General Chat

I have a male hairdresser !!!! He's not direct, a gg uncle. He never married - not sure what that says about him!
I also have a policeman - and his brother - who tried to derail a train.

A Market gardener, lots of ag labs, including a couple who turned fitter/turners when agriculture became mechanised.
Cornish Tin miners, smallholders, cordwainer, ship's steward, couple of pub landlords, few dockies/merchant seamen. A music teacher (female), laundress, and launderer, and quite a few builders - oh and a smoker of fish!

I have two bankrupt stockbrokers and (by marriage) a bankrupt gambling rich kid!

Not sure what use might be made of them ...

The wife of the gambler (my gr-grf's sister) was an actor ... maybe she could amuse everybody else's ancestors and then take up a collection? ;)

I'm thinking I'm very lucky this question is never going to arise. :D

This seven yard long tapeworm that one of mine had, will he still have it or will it be able to live independently.Maybe even have a couple of people in it's own ailimentary canal?

I guess my gravedigger grandfather won't be much use, lol! I also have a bootmaker, coal merchant, landlord and book binder and, of course, legions of ag labs!!

I have dry folk in my family cause I have a Umbrella maker... :S back in 1841 !!

I cant believe anyone could possibly afford an Umbrella in my family in 1841 let alone make one
:S

Eeeeuuwww Sharron!
I presume the ancestor with the tapeworm was skinny with a pot belly!

7yards? You could make a washing line out of that!! LOL

Well as all the positions seem to have been filled all I can offer are Bedfordshire Lace makers, and a Ship Steward.

Carol

I've got a bloke who did time for setting fire to a woodland in Herefordshire. The only one of the family ever to have cause to go to Herefordshire I think.

So,should there be need of a travelling fire-starter,he's your man.

I love this, hadn't really thought about creating a list of the various occupations before.
Paternally, minister of religion, tilemaker, Ag lab. Maternally physician, printer (who became a doctor of animal medicine at the age of 66 yrs!), another printer, carpenter, shipwright and a 'gentleman' (owner of 'Ogilvie and Moore, purveyors of fine jams and jellies' and made the best Turkish delight I hve ever tasted!!). My physician grandfather said that if he had to play a harp in Heaven, it would become hell for him. Sad to say I presume he is feeling the heat, as my Welsh side would ensure that music was present and the language of heaven was used.LOL.