Genealogy Chat

another occupation for a prostitute was charwoman although Im sure there were plenty of genuine ones

Margaret, I never knew that!!
My GG granmother was listed as that. lol

Summer.

The Goodman family Im sure are a joke.The absence of a town or parish at the top of the image was pointed out to me as proof its not genuine.
Also if you turn back a page it says its the last one so why was this page then entered?
Too many unusual features.
However Robert Goodman could be an international pianist. Take another look.

Just googled 1881 census Robert Goodman.
Loads of comments about it.

To see the gay girl on the 1871 census.

Jenny Lindsey 1829 Scotland

nudge for those interested

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I've just realised - one of great-great-great grandad Hurst's youngest sisters (there was a twenty-two year age gap between eldest and youngest!) was listed in 1871 as an unmarried 35 year old "charwoman".

I don't know what she was really employed as but it might explain why some of these charwomen etc were old enough that they might be considered past "marriageable age" - maybe they didn't get married because they didn't have to . . .

Have an ancestor whose occupation changed from charwoman to dress maker!!

"washerwoman" was another.

My 4x grandmother was described as a washerwoman on one census. She was newly widowed at the time and in her forties. I REALLY hope she was just taking washing in as it upsets me to think the poor woman must have been driven to such desperation.

I have two sisters who each had children outside marriage (one had two, both of whom died in infancy). They lived with their elderly parents and on the 1841 census are both described as "dressmakers". Both had had a child by that time. Their parents, who were in their late seventies, obviously couldn't work and they would have had to support them and the children.

The one whose two babies had died later married, aged 39, and went on to have another daughter.

search for ass or cock too - some amusing occupations
too.

I saw a census entry for a possible ancestor of mine classed as a charwoman she was 78 and living with a 62 year old also classed as a charwoman, my word!

I had a relative listed as a dressmaker and she had 3 children with no father I can find. Oh I hope she was a real dressmaker. It would horrible to think otherwise.

A sister of my 3 x GGF had 6 children outside of marriage and was ususlly described as a charwoman on the census.