Genealogy Chat

A lot of them must surely be Lettice?
I'm still grinning over Lettice Spittle Saint who marries a Tandy and ends up on Ancestry as Lettuce Spittle Landy.

Maureen

I just have to say this somewhere.

There's a thread just adjacent ... I would dearly love to join the hunt ... but I'm afraid I'm not managing to get past the second paragraph, and everyone being so sober about it. The subject's name is ...

Lettuce??

My sister gave her first daughter a flower name and wanted to continue the theme with her second. She really wanted another girl, but had to prepare for the other possibility. We came up with Basil and Narcissus, and that was about it. Maybe we should have offered up Eggplant and Sprout. Or just good down to earth Carrot. Anyhow, fortunately, she had another girl, and that was an end of it.

So I asked FreeBMD and there are indeed gazillions of records of people named Lettuce. They couldn't all have misspelled Letitia or such. Who names their kid Lettuce?? Must be one of those funny Brit tricks that didn't cross the pond. ;)

"Keeping"? Ha, now you've put me in mind of someone else I looked at way back when as being, just possibly, the mother of that Ernest Monck (not-Monck) of mine. Upon viewing the image (another bad one), we see, written alongside a long list of names of women identified as "lodger":

"Refused to give the woman in charge of the Lodging House their various occupations
Let beds by the night no chance of getting information next day"

I think there's another word for the woman in charge of that lodging house.

Interestingly, they all seem to have given their ages and places of birth. They were in the area where Ernest's putative father had hanging out at one time, and I had visions of him having had a companion and her having a child and the child being sent home to wife to rear, and then the companion ending up, 30 years later, 50ish and cast off, in this list of unfortunate women, she was poor but she was honest ...

More to the point,who is keeping them?

I think! - has anybody run into this ever?

I was doing a search for somebody in a TTF thread and ran across

Name: George Driver
Age: 23
Estimated birth year: abt 1858
Relation: Boarder
Gender: Male
Where born: Fulham, Middlesex, England
Civil parish: St George Martyr
>> Occupation: Assistant To Nunn & Sons (No Occ)


Had a look at the image (which is bad). The first person in the household list is shown as what does indeed look like "Assistant To Nunn & Sons", the ones below are dittos. A census worker has written diagonally across them "No Occ".

Now, was "Assistant to Nunn & Sons" a figure of speech meaning "None"?

Along the lines of "How are you getting there? - by Shank's mare", i.e. walking, I thought maybe. What do you do? I'm an assistant to Nunn & Sons, I'm between assignments.

Now I did google it of course, and there was a Nunn & Sons wine spirits dealers, but I wouldn't have thought their assistants would all be sharing digs. ;)