A list of jobs from the 1881 Census.

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Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 20,603 Send Message	maggiewinchester	Report	18 Mar 2016 11:17
	Compiled by the London Genealogical Society. Did your ancestor follow any of these occupations? 52 Years an Imbecile Artificial Scone Maker Assisting at Mangle Beef Twister Bottie Washer Bounder Boy for General Purposes Can Make Nothing of the Paper Carrot and Mangle Salesman Cleans Onions Clod Hopper (Ft) Colourist of Artificial Fish Count as Female Cow Banger (Ag Lab) Curer of Smokey Chimneys Custard Maker (Carpet) Dead Decayed Publisher (No Occ) Describes Himself as Leaving No Trace Disinfector of Railway (Oths) Dog Performer Driving Channel Tunnel Drowner Egg Breaker Egg Cracker Electric Bath Attendant Emasculator Employed with Head Off Examiner of Underclothing Fatuous Pauper Feeder in Bump Factory Feeding Boy to Printing Machine Ferret Weaver Fish Bender Floater Follows Wifely Occupations Formerly Fat Gold Fish Catcher Grape Dryer Gymnast to House Painter Hand in Hartleys Jam Head of Female He Play All Day Long Invalid Kings Evil Invisible Net Maker Keeps Own House at Home Knight of the Thimble Knocker Up of Workpeople Maker of Sand Views Negro Comedian White Eyed Musical Kaffir Pensioner in Charge of the Magnet Prime Minister (No Occ) Proprietor of Midgets Proprietor of Solution For Protection of Turnip From Fly Random Waller Ripper Coalmine (Blows Roof Down) Rotters Boy Running About Runs Abt Selling Fish (Hawker) Rust Attendant at a Lavatory Sampler of Drugs Scarecrow Seperated from Head Sick Maker Slob Brickmaker Supposed to be a Lady Teacher of Wax Flowers Tender of Charge of Cubes Tool Maker (Screws) Wife Travels With an Entire Horse Turnip Shepherd Unsettled Through Recent Death Very Feeble Watchmaker Master (No Hands)
	Researching: Gg gran Amelia - Suffolk side
Member Since: October 2005 Posts: 23,596 Send Message	JoyBoroAngel	Report	18 Mar 2016 11:20
	Some very strange ones in the list :-D :-D
	Researching: The birth of Middlesbrough
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 5,249 Send Message	Kense	Report	18 Mar 2016 12:53
	That's made my day. :-D
Member Since: June 2007 Posts: 31,288 Send Message	PricklyHolly	Report	18 Mar 2016 15:07
	Love it! :-D :-D :-D
	Researching: "If I don't see you through the week.........I will see you through the window". :o))
Member Since: January 2008 Posts: 2,619 Send Message	Andysmum	Report	18 Mar 2016 15:18
	:-D :-D :-D
Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 20,603 Send Message	maggiewinchester	Report	18 Mar 2016 16:46
	I think Slob Brickmakers still exist :-D Imagine going into the Jobcentre and citing one of these 'occupations' as your previous job! :-D :-D :-D
	Researching: Gg gran Amelia - Suffolk side
Member Since: June 2007 Posts: 31,288 Send Message	PricklyHolly	Report	18 Mar 2016 16:50
	I like.......... Employed with Head Off. :-D :-D
	Researching: "If I don't see you through the week.........I will see you through the window". :o))
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 46,007 Send Message	SylviaInCanada	Report	18 Mar 2016 19:18
	I buy OH a desk calendar every year ............ Forgotten English It's wonderful .......... and some of these job descriptions were on the "forgotten English" for yesterday, March 17 He brought it home for me to see :-)
	Researching: My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 12,081 Send Message	Andrew	Report	18 Mar 2016 19:33
	The 'Teacher of Wax Flowers' is Julia Crayrun. Seems appropriate! :-D Andy
Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 20,603 Send Message	maggiewinchester	Report	18 Mar 2016 19:52
	I had one of those once, Sylvia, in fact it's still around somewhere, I couldn't bear to throw it out! :-S
	Researching: Gg gran Amelia - Suffolk side
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 46,007 Send Message	SylviaInCanada	Report	18 Mar 2016 23:22
	OH rips off the pages and throws them out, although he does bring some of them home for me to see ............... as he did yesterday. I often have to search a little to find them over here ............... most calendar stores only seem to get 1 or 2 copies of them in, and they soon sell out.
	Researching: My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

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