Occupation laugh - Genealogists' Forum

Kit · #1 04-10-13, 05:48

I'm looking at the Perth Rate books for OH's rellies. Looking at the occupation for Joseph it looks like it says curtain. Luckily I know a bit about the family and know if I look at it a bit funny it says Clerk.

Merry · #2 04-10-13, 06:36

lol Toni!

My favourite occupation on our tree (not if I were doing it, I hasten to say) is that of OH's 3xg-uncle who was "urinal cleaner for the parish" in 1881 (in St Pancras, Middlesex).

#3 04-10-13, 08:48

Recently visited an elderly cousin who told me that her father delighted telling her that his first job was to stop the dogs watering the window of the department store where he worked as a junior... not sure what his job description would have been lol

Kit · #4 04-10-13, 08:49

lol Merry, at least your man was productive. Mine literally just hung around.

ElizabethHerts · #5 04-10-13, 09:03

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Originally Posted by Kit

lol Merry, at least your man was productive. Mine literally just hung around.

Shona · #6 04-10-13, 11:18

Samson Auston is described as a whore house man in the 1841 census in Glasgow, as were his 15 and 13-year-old sons.

Turns out they were looking after wares and not whores!

anne fraser · #7 04-10-13, 13:41

I came across one of my Somerset shoemakers emigrating to America and he became "a toe curler".

Kit · #8 07-10-13, 09:35

ouch Anne.

Shona that would have been a relief.