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Offline Aussie Karrob

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Re: LINKS: Occupations and Professions
« Reply #36 on: Monday 21 August 06 08:55 BST (UK) »
WOW, what a great thread this is?  I should have fallen in here ages ago!

Well done.
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Re: LINKS: Occupations and Professions
« Reply #37 on: Thursday 31 August 06 15:27 BST (UK) »
These sites contain info on industries in Lanarkshire and already on the Lanarkshire resources board(1st one posted by someone else and the 2nd by me)but I thought I would post them here incase anyone looks on the occupations board first!

Mining: http://www.scottishmining.co.uk/139.html
Steelworks:http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/clydebridge/index.html

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« Reply #38 on: Sunday 17 September 06 03:17 BST (UK) »
Census Information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

GALL-Norfolk,Cardiff,LondonTHOMAS-London,Herts,
PRIOR-N.Ireland,WOODS-N.Ieland,
DAWKES-Warks,DAVIS-Warkes'Wales,
JENNINGS-Surrey,Warks,London,SHELDRAKE-Essex,London,
BRITTON-Berks,BLAKELEY-Dewsbury W.Yorks

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Re: LINKS: Occupations and Professions
« Reply #39 on: Saturday 02 December 06 19:27 GMT (UK) »
For everyone who is interested in corkcutting or who wants to search for their corkcutting ancestor on my index, link removed website is no longer in use for family history

It has now been updated to include some great photos of cork cutters working in London in 1914.

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Cheryl
Ball(s), Mewett, Keegan, Stoner, Newman,
Thompson, Rolfe,Cullum, Bayley (Bailey)
Trade of CORKCUTTING


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Re: LINKS: Occupations and Professions
« Reply #40 on: Monday 26 November 07 00:00 GMT (UK) »

A good list and description of over 400  occupations, jobs and titles  found on 17th, 18th, 19th and early 20th century records, Census returns, and gravestone inscriptions in Scotland is at:

http://www.scotsfamily.com/occupations.htm 

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Re: LINKS: Occupations and Professions
« Reply #41 on: Friday 29 February 08 14:39 GMT (UK) »
Hi,

I did a Search RootsChat and found that the Catalogue of the National Archives
is not yet on this thread. It's worth checking for articles relating to occupations ... www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/researchguidesindex.asp?j=1

Occupations in Ireland: A Class Analysis by Conor McCabe contains a mixture of old and new occupations  http://dublinopinion.com/2007/09/20/occupations-in-ireland-a-class-analysis

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Re: LINKS: Occupations and Professions
« Reply #42 on: Sunday 10 August 08 08:33 BST (UK) »
Rats!  Can't get that very first link to work: - ... the one about police ossifers!

I copied&pasted into my browser, ... but it just goes to the "can't connect' screen  :'(
I live in Sydney, Australia, and I'm researching: Powell, Tatham, Dunbar, Dixon, Mackwood, Kinnear, Mitchell, Morgan, Delves, & Anderson

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Re: LINKS: Occupations and Professions
« Reply #43 on: Sunday 05 October 08 08:29 BST (UK) »
Many useful links, thanks to all posters.

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Re: LINKS: Occupations and Professions
« Reply #44 on: Tuesday 14 October 08 15:30 BST (UK) »
Lighthouse keepers in England Wales and the Channel Islands 1841-1910
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/Lighthouses/index.html

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