Genealogy Chat

Paul - ;-)

It was the words '1901 census' that caught my attention.

Well, it made me look, lol Pen x

Morning all, I changed the title to include THAT word after Tim suggested it because I thought it'd get you all interested. Strangely enough, it did! Mark

Mog, you know perfectly well that everybody on GR is using it as a form of surrogate s*x. Why else would we be tapping away on our computers way into the small hours when we could be indulging in the kind of recreational activity our ancestors enjoyed so much?

Tut Tut is the word s*x being allowed GR? Mark's thread, Paul's Victorian newspaper proclivities!! What's the world coming to? I never realised that those papers were so interesting. A new hobby beckons! LOL Mog

Merry, there are few pleasures left in life for an old bloke like me. It won't be long before the meaning of s*x eludes me altogether. By the way, I sent off for the product on the front page ad but unfortunately I was 125 years too late.

Paul! Tesco only do plastic boxes!! (You will be getting a reputation.....firstly reading old newspapers for their front page ads and now threads about s*x.....) Merry

They use classifications for things like bakers too I noticed. The every day 'bread' baker and the luxury 'biscuit' baker or even confectioner. You can understand it really, probably gave an indication of the prosperity of an area/the industry of the country.

Ah, Merry, Merry, Merry. Have you never bought a punnet of strawberries in the traditional box-weave?

It does look like Box, but a ''Fancy Box Maker'' was a specific occupation and had nothing to do with haberdashery or weaving and a lot more to do with cardboard! Merry

Thanks Merry, That makes sense and will let me get to sleep now! mark

There are a couple more examples a few pages on - look less like Box - still can't make it out though. One is on Tape Weaver again, but the other looks like machinist (safety work)? This is really bugging me now! mark

It's a classification catagory. The enumerators went to all this trouble recording peoples occupations and then the enumerators checker came along and stuck all the occupations into specific types. If you look at the census for Northampton there are about 1001 different trades associated with the footwear business. The checker came along and wrote ''Boot'' next to all of them!!!! Merry

I have to agree with Paul, I think it says Fancy Box, I have seen it before too.

Again, could be, Merry. But why the annotation? Mark

Isn't it, ''Fancy Sew''???? Merry

Could be, but I don't remember seeing this level of annotation before - anybody any idea why it might have been considered necessary? Mark

Some of my ancestors had 'Fancy Box' against their name - they constructed cardboard gift boxes.

Thanks Tim, Yes, thats what I thought it looked like, but I didn't believe it! Mark