Genealogy Chat

My favourite one of mine was a brewery drayman. Apparently his horse took fright one day and reared up, tipping him and his barrels into the local pond. One of the barrels clopped him on the head and he drowned in that same pond. Why that amuses me i dont know, quite sad really. Another was Carter , how he actually met his death is unknown but his horse and cart came home without him! No, I dont ride..... Jess x

Haven't linked him in yet, but I am pretty sure of a connection: Nathaniel Jesson, Sea captain, whose widow and parents were awarded a gratuity of £500 in 1654 for his part in capturing a Dutch ship in Virginia USA in the First Anglo-Dutch Wars.

Sarah, Im posher than you, all my family were FARMERS not AG LABOURERS. but maybe, just maybe, they told a few porkie pies. NO NO they wouldnt. TED.

Well at least it's honest. I've a deportee through poaching and a fence of stolen good Michelle

I have been reading this thread with great enjoyment. I too have ag labs galore, so imagine my joy when tracing one of them through the various censuses, he ends up as a farmer of 63 acres. Now that put a tear in my eye Otherwise, chimney sweeps fitters in works, miners, cloggers... but my favourite has to be the twister in a mill

Pauline He wasn't a Mann or an Overton was he? your coachbuilder Jan xx

I don't know the gestation period of a sheep or a cow, but I do know that of a pig: 115 days, or three months, three weeks and three days. And I've never tried slaughtering anything because I'm a vegetarian.

I have a gt grandfather who worked at The Kremlin and whose address in 1891 was Kremlin Paddocks .... this was the Kremlin, Newmarket though - he was head gardener to Prince Soltykoff, a Russian race horse owner.

I have a 'proffessional vocalist' a'novice' who may or may not have become a nun, and lots of ag labs too... nobody famous yet, I did have a cigar maker (female) it sounded very exotic. keep hunting. Sue

One of my mother's cousins was a famous plant breeder. I have a picture of him showing the queen his cabages. He got the O.B.E. shortly afterwards so she must have been impressed.

The host of the worst jobs programme is Tony Robinson, he also hosts time team. David

Sarah, More agric labrs, lol Supposedly Alfred the Great, William Shakespeare, Lady Godiva and Lord Audley! But I have yet to find the connection to all of these. Think I will have to stick with agric labrs, oh and coal miners and frame knitters. June xx

My husband has a 'cork sorter'.

Got some ag. labs., miners. But I did find a paper bag maker!!!!!

Not been doing this very long as far as I can see the only ag lab that got onto a census was myself and then only just. In 1961 I was a student at agricultural college, by 1971 I had left farming but anyone around in 2067 will find me on the 1966 mini census. All other rellies were either in textiles or engineering. David

Yes, like all of you, I have many Ag Labs on my tree. I did have a great-great uncle who was in the Coldstream Guards and fought in the Crimean War. He won a medal for Distinguished Conduct in the Field. At the other end of the scale, I have a convict ancestor who got transported to Australia. My great-great-great grandparents were married by Lord Nelson's father, who was Edmund Nelson, rector of Burnham Thorpe. Other than that, my Dad was a Fireman and his Dad was a hairdresser! Cheers, Lynn

1881 (enter 'Queen The' as surname) QUEEN THE Head W Female 61 Queen Of Great Britain & Ireland Leopold PRINCE H R H THE Son U Male 37 London, London, Middlesex, England Prince Beatrice PRINCE H R H THE Daughter U Female 23 Princess Euqenie EX EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH Visitor W Female 43 Ex Empress Alfred PRINCE OF EDINBURGH Grandson Male 6 Prince Maria PRINCESS OF EDINBURGH Grand Daughter Female 5 Princess Victoria PRINCESS OF EDINBURGH Grand Daughter Female 4 Princess Alexandra PRINCESS OF EDINBURGH Grand Daughter Female 2 Princess ... NORTHAMPTON Other W Female 41 Dublin Lady Of The Bedchamber (C S) Christina D'ARCOS Other W Female 39 Dublin Lady In Waiting (C S) Harriet Lepel PHIPPS Other U Female 39 London Chelsea, London, Middlesex, England Maid Of Honour (C S) Evelyn MOORE Other U Female 24 Frittenden, Kent, England Maid Of Honour (C S) Louise Maria KORELE Other U Female 43 Bordeaux, France Lectrice To The Queen (C S) Amalie HEIM Other U Female 27 Alsace, Germany Governess (Teacher) George (Visct Torrington) BYNG Other M Male 68 Chatham, Kent, England Lord In Waiting (C S Offo) Charles Lennox FITZROY Other W Male 59 London Grovenor Place, London, Middlesex, England Lieut General & Equery (C S) Charles Hugh LINDSAY Other W Male 64 Muncaster Castle, Cumberland, England Lieut Col Groom In Waiting (C S) Fleetwood Isham EDWRADS Other M Male 38 Thames Ditton, Surrey, England Capt Groom In Waiting (C S) Franceschini PIETRI Other U Male 45 Corsica Monte Cello (Not A British Subject) Gentleman In Waiting (C S) Hermann SAHL Other Male 49 Darnstadt Not Nturalized, Germany Librian (C B) Plus several more pages on which you will find John BROWN

Hardly any ag labourerers so far but I have not been doing it as long as you - Innkeeper,(great grandma) barmaids, her daughters, governess, groom, blacksmith, harnessmaker, shoemaker, coal haulier, mallster, corn merchant, grocer, a few farmers and quite a few doctors and teachers. I had always thought of my mother's family as the middle class one but found my paternal grandmother's family included a G.P. and a surgeon. How on earth did they afford the universiity fees and why did my great grandfather end up as a coalminer. No connections to royalty yet.

I can proudly announce that a look at a census entry has turned up my first ag lab. Can I apply for membership of the Ag Lab Club now? One butcher, several bakers but no candlestick maker yet. My nearest brush with nobility is a ggg-grandfather whose address was The Manor House - but he was the gardener rather than the lord of the manor.

I have found a master Cooper and several other Coopers. Some Butchers and a fisherman. A cab driver a Carman!!! and a brushmaker. Also labourers and ag. Labourers ,Hawkers and a collar ironer!!! Great to imagine them going about their business. I wonder how our ancestors will view our occupations. Job description number cruncher.