General Chat

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.

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.

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

Carol

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

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

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!!

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 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

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!

This is beginingbto sound "like Heaven". However I do not intend to visit just yet as I have a wedding to go to next weekend and grandchildren visiting soon, please could we have someone arrive who is a hairdresser, my hair is in a bit of a state.
Will be back in a couple of weeks unless of course I am already ahead of you...hope not ,

20.57 hrs Spain :D

On Dads side,lead miners,coal miners,one tin miner,ag labs,a couple of farmers,cutlery manufacturers,tool makers,two stone masons and Dad was a publican.

Grandmother was an opera singer,so you can all be sung at while expecting your relllies to slave in death,as in life.

Good heavens Karen no Ag labs? Have some of mine if you like!

An oldie but goodie!! What a nice thread.


On the male side I can offer plenty of bricklayers and brickmakers, a stonemason, a couple of builders, a carpenter & joiner, a house painter or two, quite a few Thames watermen and a few boatbuilders, a couple of coal miners, and I think I can say, not one Ag Lab!!
That puts us ok with a roof over our heads, nicely decorated, furniture, fuel for the fire and a boat in case of floods!

On the females side, well I had a fair few Laundresses, seamstresses and tailoresses, a few charwomen, and a couple of shop assistants, a jute/rope factory worker, and much more recently, on the nursing side - a matron and a sister. Oh, and a chiropodist.
We should be ok for lovely clothes, a clean house, good medical care and nice feet then!

K

What fun and how interesting.

I have farm owners and farm workers, silk makers, labourers, C of E ministers, Railway Engineer for the Great Western Railway, Solders, sailors Military men, nurses, Wet nurses, even a couple of people who went to Africa to preach to the natives, another went to Papua New Guinea,.
Registered Nurses, maids, and a ballerina! So we would be clean, tidy, fed quite well, have nurse maids to care for the children and nurses to care for the sick. People who could tell stories about the travels,their experiences in India, and other foreign parts and who they met. The two I look forward to meeting because they were in two different but amazing places are the 14 year old who carried the flag for England at the battle of Waterloo and Michael Farady re electricity etc. ( my maiden name).

19.12 hrs Spain

Just realised it is a an oldy but goody thread.

Think mine wil be surplus repeats though, Miner, Ag labs, blacksmith, butcher, bricklayer, mason, thatcher, Tailor, Pastry cook, grocer, Mill worker (could provide the cloth for the tailor I suppose.) Cricket bat maker, coachman, railway worker, Road maker, lime burner. :-)

Sheep stealer, farmers, fishermen, butchers and bakers...Well I guess thats the food taken care off...A couple were reverends and some were dressmakers....Soldiers and sailors to...

Jules x

Well OH has vicars!!!!!! Then he has bricklayers/grooms/cordwainer/farmers/coachbuilder. My lot are fishermen and mariners - nothing else.

So we should have a roof over our heads, shoes on our feet, food and fresh fish on the table, sailors to bring the rest of goods in, and the vicars to look after our spiritual wellbeing.

Don't know what to do with the groom although OH adores horses. Course if we get a coach built we will need a horse - problem of groom solved!

lol Gwyn, I looked at the first date and wondered!

I can give a couple of printers ( newsletter saying who's just arrived maybe?) , a ferry man ( maybe more suited to going to the other place in mythology),, gardeners,fishermen and my mum to look after all the animals :)

Found this fun thread while searching for something else.

Any more work offered in this peaceful community?

Gwyn

Thanks Iris. It's almost 9:30pm here now. I'm off out for my tea so I will catch up with you all tomorrow. John