What is the most interesting occupation in your family tree? (#2)

[paj16l]

I have a lamplighter in the family.  I just wonder what he did during the day?  Oh, and my grandfather was a drayman and worked in a pub in the evenings and weekends.  He was teetotal so i suppose he was trusted not to drink the profits.

[RWL]

Some of the more different ones...other than the dozens of miners and ag labourers:

Bailiff
Carman
Carpenter (quite a few...)
Cartwright
Doctor
Dressmaker
Engineer (had his own business and built locomotives that were sent to Wales)
Mechanic (my great grandfather, in 1911 already)
Minister
Model (the wife of the auto-mechanic 
Parish Clerk
Publican / Victualer
R.R. Watchman
Soldier (many of these as well...)
Spoolwinder
Steward
Stonemason
Weaver
Wheelwright

[dawnwas]

Well...apparantly I had a ventriloquist ( can't spell ) in my family tree....quite cute really, as I have always had the knack of talking through my teeth...quite a party trick. I am still perfecting the rendition of the night before christmas whilst drinking a glass of water though!!!!
dawn

[Diane101]

I found an aerobat, sounds dodgy but i think we would say trapeze artist, with a father who was a clown.  grandparents (i think) were theatre managers.  livened up the proceedings a bit.
Diane

[trellisick]

i had an EYE FITTER which sounds a bit unusual, but when you know the rest of the family were shoe makers it then becomes clear.  i will keep an EYE OUT for some more,   kali.

[runner]

Hi folks
Just been talking to my 94 year old mother today about her occupation. She was a governess to the severely monied families out in the States during the depression. While others threw themselves out of the Empire State building she was suppressing ( there is probably a better word but these children sounded horrible!) the offspring , being waited on by the servants and being forced to travel in private trains on holiday - the EVIL of some occupations!!!
Because she was Sottish she was hauled in for questioning over the Lindberg kidnap (they suspected an inside job at first!)
Her aunt was governess to Irvin Berlin's daughter and had an even harder life!!!

Not too special or different  but you must admit much more interesting than my collection of Ag Labs, shepherds and fishermen.

PS She also made it clear that Prohibition did not apply to the Rich and Famous
So thats where I take my liking for malt whisky etc from  Mmmmmhh!

Russell

[Glenpenny]

I have:
sanitary tube maker,
card room hand ( I assume this was at the local mill and not at a casino)
muffin and crumpet baker
river pilot
drummer
cordwainer
whisky agent
harbour master
heald knitter
sailmaker
tap man
wool teaser (aged 12)
clog maker
quilt manufacturer
glass blower
colly hurrier
trammer  ( must vist that website Chris)

and best of all - a rustic rhymer!

Glenys

[CU]

I got one that was a coal miner in the week and on Saturday afternoon he cut hair and pulled teeth, in a barn behind his father-in-laws pub, for extra money!
Those were the days!

[behindthefrogs]

You have an intriguing set of jobs there Glenys.  Your Trammer was a young person working in a coal mine, and the Colly hurrier pushed the trucks on the surface.  Your Rustic Rhymer has me defeated however unless he was just the obvious a country poet.

David