Genealogy Chat

Hi Louisa Steward......High manorial officer responsible for transactions and record keeping, In modern usage, a person who attends to passengers on a train, plane, boat etc Marine fireman - I would think is what it states, possibly could be shore based and travelling out as do the river police Sorry that I am unable to help any of the other enquiries, it just goes to show how many occupation there were, my book has nearly 2000 and yet there are so many not included. I will still look up any enquiries Anne

Hi Anne, Could you possibly look up the occupations Marine Fireman and Steward in that helpful little book of yours - they're probably really obvious but any info would be great! Thank you! Louisa

Thanks Anne and Christine for Bodger. Just caught up with the reply.

Emma From stories handed down in the family, we are convinced that our stick mounters were making walking sticks and possibly even umbrella handles. They were very fashionable at the time, and from what we have been told, they designed and made the fancy metal tops which were mounted with silver and gold. Other members of the family were silver mounters, gold mounters, brass finishers and Engineers. It seems as if it was a family business, also doing other engineering and metalwork. Unfortunately, whatever name they went under, we don't know, but it doesn't seem to have gone under the family surname, as we can find no mention of the business in the various trades directories. I keep looking though! Thanks for the suggestion. Janet

hi,anne. please could you tell me what a chair woman was as an occupation. several of the inmates of kent county asylum barming heath maidstone had this as an occupation. thanks yvonne

Janet, I have stick mounter in my family as an occupation as well - I also have barometer makers in the same family - there is such a thing as a stick barometer perhaps it refers to that. Emma.

Just put this surggestion to KIM. on another thread. . . . PUDDLER...... One who converts Pig-Iron into Wrought-Iron. OR.....Converts Cast-Iron into mallable Iron.

Sorry...didn't know I should check this thread every day....... BEV... MULETEE...Person who drives Mules. CARDER... To comb Wool,Flax,Hemp. (These are the closest to spelling you gave.) ELIZABETH...Sorry you have me stumped. But take an educated quess...... HUTER.. Man in charge of the Builders hut keep clean and make tea..but could be wrong. HOVIER.. person who would Hover the fluff up under and around the needles on the knitting machines within the Hosiery trade. Or was the look out for a Bookie. MAZ.... Sorry didn't see any request other than " Pot Dealer" so maybe we're getting back to The " Honey Cart Men" again. But I'll still bear these in mind.

Bev - you might find it was a cordwainer - an old fashioned word for a shoemaker - from Cordovan leather. Maz. XX

Sorry Bev, Maz and Liz Unable to help, nothing in my little book. Perhaps some one else will be able to help, may be Mike from Leicester can help Anne

Hi Anne, On my g-g-grandfathers marriage cert it says his father was a 'mulster'. Any idea what one of those was. The cert isn't a very good copy and I cant read the occupation of the father of the bride very well, it's something like 'cardur***'. Is there anything it you little book similar to that. Thanx in anticipation, Bev x

Saw a chap on the 1881 census yesterday with his occupation shown as 'pot dealer' !!! I think he might phrase it differently today... Maz. XX

Hi Bernard Annuitant.....Someone who receives an annual pension Anne

hi ann tell me what is a annuitant. thanks bernie.

Anne. . . . WOW. . . " Tin bath by the fire in deed " you must have been posh then. I had my weekly Dunk in the Stone Sink in the kitchen ...but in Summertime it was a tin enamel bowl out in the yard....Ha Ha.

I mentioned the 'honey cart' because I thought that the younger members may not know that such things happened, especially only 40 years ago, they are used to bathrooms and do not know about the tin bath by the fire on a Friday night!!! Anne

Anne If by 'honey cart' you mean the 'night soil collector', in our village in Northamptonshire it was known as 'The Midnight Bus'! (By the way - I've never tried Beetroot Chutney! Does that mean pink hands again?!) Janet

Thought that you might like a few M's Manchester man.... Seller of towels and cloth products Mouldiwarp catcher.... Mole catcher Molarius.......Miller Messor.....An officer of the manor with jurisdiction over the fields As for Mike...I remember the 'honey carts' as they were called in Norfolk, lived in Wales in 1960's and they came and emptied the buckets every week!!!!!! Keep these pieces of information rolling in, they may help someone, even if it only raises a smile whilst we are searching and hitting brick walls. Anne

I think I would tell people I was a digger and pretend to be poor. LOL and love these. Maz. XX

Hi Folks some more to Ponder on. . . CADDY BUTCHER.... The Derivation is from a "CAD" a man who looked after horses at a coach stand. . the term "CAD" became widely used when refering to anything to do with horses...so a "CAD BUTCHER" was a butcher who sold horse meat. CHAFF-CUTTER... A cutter of chaff another word for straw which was used for the stuffing in pillows,cussions, and mattresses. CLICKER... A part from those in the Boot & Shoe trade...it also related to the charge hand who prepared materal ready for the printing trade. CRAPPER.... Now, now stop giggling ! He was a slate worker who worked ALL YEAR LONG in the Quarry as aposed to a DIGGER who only worked there for part of the year... Dare i ask if you have a CRAPPER in your Family ?....No I'd better not !