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Nick29
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Re: What happened to my great, great grandfather?
« Reply #15 on: Monday 26 October 09 08:30 UTC (UK) »
I think coachmen must have had hard lives.  My great-uncle was a coachman, and he died at 25 from a form of TB linked to a fungal infection.
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Re: What happened to my great, great grandfather?
« Reply #16 on: Monday 26 October 09 18:23 UTC (UK) »
Hi Nick

Crikey...your poor great uncle Shocked

Incidentally, do you know how coachmen were used from circa 1870-1900? Were they employed by companies and run like taxi firms do today? Did the coachmen have set routes or was it just a case of go where the punter wants to go? I'm trying to build a picture so that I can perhaps follow up other lines of enquire re: my great great grandfather. For example, if he did in fact work for a company, perhaps they would have kept records? Huh

Jamie
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Nick29
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Re: What happened to my great, great grandfather?
« Reply #17 on: Thursday 29 October 09 09:46 UTC (UK) »
With everything (including people) being transported on horse-drawn carts, I would imagine that there would have been tens of thousands of coachmen employed across the country, although their job titles may have varied, depending on what they carried.

Ironically, my great uncle married a woman who was 16 years older than he was - and she survived him by more than 50 years  Smiley
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Best Wishes, Nick.

Research interests:
Field - Luton & Islington
Hole - Somerset, Suffolk & Surrey
Farnish, Parker, Cattermole, Last, Wasp, Church - Suffolk
Lewin/Lowin/Lowen - Hertfordhire
Martin - Eltham & Greenwich, Kent (London)
Stead - Greenwich, London (Kent) & Maidstone
Wood - Hertfordshire

Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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