General Chat

wheels (I come from a long line of wheelwrights)

Market gardening

or

Shoe making.

Now if I see any sign of these things on TV etc suddenly I am hooked now I know I have these professions in my tree.

What professions do you watch out for? xx

Modeling,hangman and dragon slayer...so watch out.pmsl

Hang Man?

>>>>>>>>>>>>runs>>>>>>>>>>>

I was referring to the dragon slayer...lol

I have just finished a wonderful book..True story..

Muffy - you and I MUST be related - my grandfather and his father were wheelwrights!

I have a lot of rellos on GR. Hands up those who have Ag.Labs in their tree??? I have lots of them in my tree so I must be related to you, too!
How nice! I wondered where I got my green thumb from. Well, actually, it's closer to brown - but I like digging the dirt!

well Ag Lab - loved the Victorian Farm series and bought the book. Shipwright, sailmaker and rigger are on my dad's side, but you don't see much mention of those really. I've got shoemakers too. Most of mum's side worked on the railway, engine drivers mainly but platelayers too. I do like the sea and I've always enjoyed steam trains, so maybe its in the blood!
Maz. XX

Berona you do make me smile, you're now on my Christmas card list with the Ag Lab side of the family.
Ggrandfather was a wheelwright,but he was also a carpenter and undertaker all at the same time so he'd got the market well sown up, made his own coffins too. Wonder where all the money went that he must have made, oh well

Weally Muffy ???


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Well what can i say ??? most of my father's side of the family were in building/construction/decorating etc ........ and look where i end up working - a builders merchant lololol


Morning All :O)) xxx

I've got a fair few ag labs too Berona lol so you never know !!!

Beejay.........My g g grandfather did exactly the same with the coffins lol....must've been a typical wheelwright sideline !!!

Maz I missed the Victorian Farm series...think OH was watching something on the other side ....I am looking out for that being repeated xx

Most of mine are Ag Labs
But I have no interest in farming
lol
But must have lots of relies with Ag Labs in their tree

Im the same with the navy, ship building and pirates.

my dads maternal line were a long line of naval officers

his paternal side have more recently been 3 generations of teachers, before that shoe makers but way back pirates and Im so intrigued by the piracy!

On my mums paternal side there was ag labourers and naval personnel

and on her maternal side there was way back ag labourers and for the past 150 years till present shipwrights.

so it seems my love of the sea has been bred into me from both sides of the family.

My fathers side were wheelwrights, publicans and soldiers.

xxxx mick

Hi again Muffy,

and anyone else hanging around. We have Ag Labs, and miners everywhere and the odd wharfie, soldier and dressmaker floating around too.

Alison

Paper making here.

Two generations of my Hampshire lot worked for Portals mill making banknote paper. It's something I've now become very interested in and I've found out the history of Papermaking and the growth of the industry in England.

At the moment, I've found a book (online) called Wiltshire Tales, which was published in about 1853, and are written in Wiltshire dialect of the time. Many of the tales are of farm labourers, and that fascinates me, as one branch were farm labourers at that time.

Huge naval history on my Mum's maternal line and this is a recent discovery. An ancestor was on the E11 submarine and had an illustrious career in WW1 in the Dardenelles. Ag labs, shoemakers and a couple of railway people. A London harness maker on OH's side and a travelling minister on my father's side.

Sue xx

I have a harness maker too.......and a Punch and Judy man lol.xx

Punch and Judy used to scare me to death. Wonder what it is about wheels and coffins going together Mind you while grandad was doing all this wheeling and burying and other carpenting (or whatever the word is) they were running a pub too. Still managed to have 10 children, oh for some of their stamina

Just had a thought, a lot of both my ancestors and my husbands came from mining backgrounds and came to Oz and did the same thing. Stands to reason I suppose since that's what they knew. Just as a matter of interest (to me anyway), one of my great something grandmothers was born in Wallsend in the Newcastle area of England. Came to Australia and lived all the rest of her life in Wallsend, a suburb of Newcastle NSW.

I've got a Master Baker and a Master Boot Maker , perhaps I'll spend today seeing if I can bake a splendid boot shaped cake............lol