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Clod Hopper
« on: Monday 04 August 08 09:12 UTC (UK) »
I've just found an individual whose occupation is given as Clod Hopper - I'd always assumed this was an affectionate (or derogitory) term for an Ag lab, but have never seen it before on the census returns. It was 1881 in Somerset. Was this a localised expression?

Steve
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Re: Clod Hopper
« Reply #1 on: Monday 04 August 08 11:47 UTC (UK) »
Hi Steve

A Clod Hopper was a term for a Plough Man.

This site will explain more Old Occupations. 
http://rmhh.co.uk/occup/
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Re: Clod Hopper
« Reply #2 on: Monday 04 August 08 11:49 UTC (UK) »
Hi Steve,
Just found the following:
CLOD: Once a common colloquial term for a rustic simpleton.
CLOD HOPPER: Colloquial term for a farmer.
From 'A Dictionary of Old Trades and Occupations'.
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Re: Clod Hopper
« Reply #3 on: Monday 04 August 08 12:25 UTC (UK) »
From the Oxford English Dictionary.
One who walks over ploughed land; a ploughman or agricultural labourer; a country lout; hence, a clumsy awkward boor, a clown.
c1690 B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Clod-hopper, a Ploughman.

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Re: Clod Hopper
« Reply #4 on: Monday 04 August 08 13:35 UTC (UK) »
Thank you all

It seems to narrow down the occupation to ploughman ( there were several ag labs on the same page). I didn't know it was still in use as late as 1881

Steve
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Bumstead - London, Suffolk
Flexney, Godfrey  -  Oxfordshire
Street, Cave - Gloucestershire
Gibbs, Gait, Noyes, Peters, Padfield, Board, York, Rogers, Emery, Clavey - Somerset
Fook, Snell - Devon
M(a)cDonald, Yuell, Gollan, McKenzie - Rosshire
McLennan, Mackintosh - Inverness
Williams, Jones - Angelsey & Caernarvon
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Re: Clod Hopper
« Reply #5 on: Monday 04 August 08 14:06 UTC (UK) »
He is the only one in the whole of the 1881 Census, perhaps he had a sense of humour  Smiley

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Re: Clod Hopper
« Reply #6 on: Monday 04 August 08 22:47 UTC (UK) »
AND (not so daft) has the sense to hop over the clods! Grin
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