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I do look into the background of occupations and all places each generation lived, but not every character in my tree has a narrative, just those that interested me at the time. I've also related stories such as the mother who sent her boys down the street for a pint of blood from the slaughterhouse so she could make black puddings. Still on the subject of food, there's a sentence or two about how one hard up man made a noose to catch birds for a meal.That man moved northward to get seasonal work at a large port and I've described how large groups of unskilled men crowded outside the dockyard gates hoping the tallyman would hire them and hand them a tally (a metal disc). As workers were often paid their wages in a local pub, I saw the harbour where my OHs ship's carpenter ancestor worked had a tavern named "Ship's Carpenter" and my imagination took hold. I've also got newspaper adverts inserted by my commercial ancestors and as one of OHs ancestors made and sold a patented object, I've got an image of that too. From an 18th century ancestor's inventory listing the different sized metal rods he used in his occupation of a nailor, I then managed to find images and descriptions of handmade nails and what they were used for, readers can skip over that chapter but if they do theyll not know what an inkle factory was
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