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Oh WOW! I've got a Not Match with Ed...
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♫ D☺ver Sue | Report | 30 Aug 2006 08:54 |
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I thought I had an American Banker, then looked closer and found it was Baker :-(( |
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Richard in Perth | Report | 30 Aug 2006 09:09 |
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OC, all I can say is you're lucky to be so well connected! I've got back at least 5 generations on every branch of my ancestry, and therefore know the occupations of all 16 of my ggg-grandfathers (their wives, of course, didn't have occupations!). Out of the 16, I have: 3 ag labs, 1 general lab, 3 shoemakers/cordwainers, a tailor, a grocer, a cab driver, a builder, a painter/decorator, a stone-mason, a gunsmith, a soldier and a sailor. Six of them died in workhouses and two in asylums. Not one of the 16 left a will it seems, and my father is my only ancestor who didn't have a ''blue-collar'' occupation. When I started this hobby, I was kind of hoping to find some long-forgotten link to aristocracy or at least to somebody famous, but it wasn't to be. Never mind, at least now I do know where I've come from, and I have to say that I've grown to love them all - paupers, loonies, petty criminals and just plain old battlers! Richard :) |
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An Olde Crone | Report | 30 Aug 2006 12:26 |
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Rod Nope, mine definitely didnt bother to even pretend to be dressmakers. I forgot my Opera Singer.And Susie Cooper, the famous pottery woman, who was my father's godmother. And dont be so sure about your humble ag labs being so humble, look at mine, one minute he is digging potatoes, the next he inherited half the Turks and Caicos, at the age of 25! OC |
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