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

[behindthefrogs]

One of my ancestors sold chips from a wooden shed at the bottom of his garden.  One would hate to think what "health and safety" and the fire brigade would make of that today.

David

[Heather Anne]

George Page, vaudeville performer on the London Stage on the 1890's.  Wish I could find out something more about him!
Heather

[Romilly]

Hi Again,

Re: your Vaudeville Performer:-)

My Great Grandfather, Thomas Louis Newman is described as a "Comedian" on my Grandmother's birth certificate. (I gather that he did a "disappearing act" shortly after her birth...& so perhaps that was part of his act too:-)

Seriously, - I would imagine that the Music Halls of that time would have been the most likely venue for your missing bod too. I think that my G/G did a "turn" at Greenwich Music Hall, from what I've heard. I don't know if theres any way of tracing Music Hall acts? Mind you...he might've used a different name professionally...perhaps thats why I can't find any trace of him on Ancestry etc

Cheers, Romilly.

[mc8]

My Great Grandfather, Thomas Louis Newman is described as a "Comedian" on my Grandmother's birth certificate. (I gather that he did a "disappearing act" shortly after her birth...& so perhaps that was part of his act too:-)

Seriously, - I would imagine that the Music Halls of that time would have been the most likely venue for your missing bod too. I think that my G/G did a "turn" at Greenwich Music Hall, from what I've heard. I don't know if theres any way of tracing Music Hall acts? Mind you...he might've used a different name professionally...perhaps thats why I can't find any trace of him on Ancestry etc

Cheers, Romilly.

you might find something here
http://www.thegalloper.com/

[Romilly]

Hi Mc8,

What a facinating site!!

I shall have hours of fun wading through it. (Perhaps I'll even find my missing Comedian)

Many thanks, Romilly.

[Doedoe]

just to say I have never laughed so much for a long time  this is a brilliant site   makes my rellies sound very  dull  here goes
 joiner
 french polisher
jeweller
baker
washerwomen
housekeeper
husbandman
shoemaker
engine fitter
farmers
iron moulder
railway labourer
earthenware turner
confectioner
carter on the Liverpool docks
and a gardener
Doreen
sorry no comedians  coffin makers or ladies of the night   havent found any yet    but time will tell

[Headbanger Veron]

Don't know about the most interesting - but I think I may have just found the longest - (written in very tiny writing) - "Clerk to a firm exporting British manufactured goods to the United States of N. America" !!!

Obviously a stickler for accuracy!

Veron 

[lynbee]

Hi
How about
Pirates,
Clergy,
Prostitutes,
Farmers,
Soldiers,
Prison Guards,
Wood Dealer,
Ships Captain,
Gum Diggers
and one was a convict...not his trade he was Rein Maker before he was nabbed for theft & deported.
Lyn

[DianaCanada]

Some occupations in my family:
         Lots of Ag Labs in Sussex
         Lots of Mill workers in Lancashire
But also:
         Joiner
         Pipe Fitter
         Publican
         Author (me own mama)
         Soldier (19th c., for 20 yrs.)
         Chicken Fatter
         Shopkeeper  (1851, a woman)
         Railway worker
         Royal Household valet
         Assorted servants
         Chain of dairies (20th c.)
          Governess
          School teacher (19th c.)
         
My favourite has to be my ancestor John Feay - a lamplighter in Victorian Manchester!