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On birth certs. I have of my male ancestors their occupation is FLY DRIVERS. Can anybody tell what job is? My info that has come through the family is that they were Hanson Cab drivers as one owned a horse stable in Brighton. Many thanks

"Fly Coachman / Flyman
Fly Proprietor/Master 1) Drove a "fly" a one horse two wheeled light carriage 2) Flyman also a term for a theatre stage hand 3) A Fly Proprietor/Master employed fly drivers for hire and usually owned the flys."

from Old Occupations site

It's a driver of a light carriage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_(carriage)

Thank-you so they were Hanson-cabs drivers, My gr-grandmother Caroline Boxall b. 1839ish on my father side owned the stable in Brighton Now .. the odd thing is that on my mothers side, my gr-grand mother was also a Caroline Boxall b. 1842ish

Unusual to find the same name on different sides, but there are quite a few Caroline Boxall births ( looking at freebmd.org.uk) I wonder if your two were related further back ?

Hi Rambling, I have researched back on my mothers side back 1650 & on fathers side back to 1770, no connection found. Mothers Caroline born in West dean Chichester, fathers Caroline born in Brighton, not that far away from each other.

Are you sure that two cousins didn't marry and in that way the two Caroline Boxall records you have could be the same person?

Kath. x

Hi Kathleen, with-out a shadow of doubt not connected. Other tree ownes have researchered, they have found no connection

Malcolm, never trust another's research lol ( I'm sure you know that) but in my case a number of people's research, though otherwise good, was wrong on one important detail . They had a death, right age,right year and seemingly right place too, but wrong person, meaning my father couldn't exist, and so I couldn't either :-)

BTW ...........


it is Hansom Cab, not Hanson.

LOL, Sylvia......


likewise Nissan huts!!!

Rose - better to find two people totally unrelated, with the same name on different sides of the family, than 3 generations on the same side, with the same names marrying :-S :-S
I have 3 William Jory's marrying a Jane, Catherine and Jane Polkinghorne in succession - and they all came from St Allen in Cornwall.
St Allen isn't the 'biggest' of parishes - in 2001 it had a total of 435 inhabitants (495 in 2011)
Imagine how 'huge' the population was between 1700 to 1760! :-S

Thankfully, they dispersed after 1760 :-D
But only to slightly different areas of Cornwall. :-\

maggie .............

I have very similar in my ancestry in 3 small villages very close to one another in Buckinghamshire!

Trace 'em far enough back 2 generations at most!!) and they're related :-(