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Somerset / Please help me find Granny Tree in 1911??
« on: Thursday 05 September 13 15:45 BST (UK)  »
Hi, my husband's Granny (known as Granny Tree because she was tall  :D) was Ethel LANGLEY reg/born in Clutton, Somerset Jul-Aug-Sep 1889 to Methodist minister and coal miner Benjamin Harry LANGLEY and his wife Alice Martha. I have her in Radstock, Somerset in 1891 and in Hanley, Staffordshire in 1901 with the family but cannot find her again until 1913 when she marries Catholic fire clay miner William KELLY in July 1913 in New Monkland, Airdrie, Lanark, Scotland. By October 1913 she has given birth to her oldest child Christopher.

If anyone can help me find Ethel I would be most grateful.  :)

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Occupation Interests / Re: Engineer or stationer
« on: Saturday 24 August 13 18:30 BST (UK)  »
Thanks very much for your help, I will have a look x

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Occupation Interests / Re: Engineer or stationer
« on: Thursday 22 August 13 08:36 BST (UK)  »
Hi all,

It's a while since I did this post but I watched WDYTYA last night  :) and saw that Gary Lineker's gggg grandfather was a Stationer, i.e. a member of the Company of Stationers.

It seems there are many occupations included under this umbrella, including printing, papermaking, packaging, office products, engineering, advertising, design, photography, film and video production, publishing of books, newspapers and periodicals and digital media.

Obviously some of these were not around in Joseph Henry's time but it certainly makes more sense of the occupation stationer. He was a Secretary of a Building Society at one time so he must have been an educated man.

I wonder if he went as far as joining the Company of Stationers and if so does anyone know how to access records online?

Have a good day everyone  :)

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Occupation Interests / Re: Engineer or stationer
« on: Saturday 15 June 13 10:47 BST (UK)  »
Happy to do it  ;D ;D

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Occupation Interests / Re: Engineer or stationer
« on: Saturday 15 June 13 10:16 BST (UK)  »
Thanks everyone, I have been watching with interest.

He certainly did like to exaggerate  ;D On the marriage certificate, where it says he was an engineer, his father, George Cox, occupation is down as DETECTIVE (quite tricky to read, I thought it said butcher for ages). I have got George's employment record from Bath Records Office and he was a shoe maker turned Police Constable until he retired in 1880 and not the best in the world as he was fined many times for being drunk on duty or slipping off for a fast one  ;) . Not surprising since his sister ran the Crystal Palace public house in Bath along with her husband in the 60's and 70's.

I'm not sure about the Railway records, thanks Susan for finding these  :) but there is no proof like dob or place of birth or address to prove that it's my Joseph Cox. I'm inclined to believe that one or more of them are mine but without proof I can't add it yet. 

Thanks, Diane

 

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Occupation Interests / Re: Engineer or stationer
« on: Friday 14 June 13 17:26 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Mazi, perhaps he was just a stationer after all!!

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Occupation Interests / Re: Engineer or stationer
« on: Friday 14 June 13 14:10 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Susan  :), I will look at the railway employment records on Ancestry. I know we can't be sure but I will make a note that stationer could possibly have something to do with the railways on his record, perhaps something will turn up to prove one way or the other one day, maybe it WAS papers  ;)

Thanks for your help  :)

Diane

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Occupation Interests / Re: Engineer or stationer
« on: Friday 14 June 13 07:56 BST (UK)  »
Hi Susan and Sami, You have been busy overnight!

Do you have details of the railway entries?? Where can I see this?

I can't find him in 1881 either but his daughter Alice Ada's baptism in June 1880 has his occupation as Butler which ties in with Elizabeth's entry in 1881. He was also down as servant on the baptism records for children Elizabeth and Malcolm in 1872. Perhaps he was out of the country with the family he worked for in 1881, I will have to have another look.

I'm glad you agree with the other censuses as I wasn't 100% certain.

He then reappears in 1901 in Burnham on Crouch as a Hotel Proprietor. He certainly got around!! This surprised me but was corroborated by his daughter Emily's marriage in Burnham and more importantly, my nan, Alice Ada met my granddad in Burnham and they were married in the Congregational Chapel there.

He also seems to have been a Freemason, do we have a Masonic section on Rootschat?

My question still remains could a stationer have anything to do with railways??

Thanks again for all your help

Diane

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Occupation Interests / Engineer or stationer
« on: Thursday 13 June 13 21:02 BST (UK)  »
My great grandfather, Joseph Henry Cox, did change his jobs frequently so often it's been difficult to track him down. My query is that on his marriage to Mary Elizabeth McGregor in Caterham, Surrey in 1866 he is described as an engineer, but just a few years later in 1871 he is described as a stationer. Now Joseph's father in law was a station master and I wondered if there was just a chance the occupation 'stationer' could refer to the railways instead of just the usual seller of paper goods.  Any ideas would be gratefully received, many thanks

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