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frostbarter
10-12-07, 22:06
Can anybody read the occupation of Alexander Holmes please.

Source Citation: Class: RG12; Piece: 543; Folio 73; Page 18; GSU roll: 6095653.

Thank you.

Barbara

Merry Monty Montgomery
10-12-07, 22:09
Tripe Dresser!!! lolol

Lyn A
10-12-07, 22:12
Should have known that Merry would beat me to it!!

It is indeed Tripe Dresser....and I don't know what is so funny! Several of my ancestors were Tripe Dressers. Large family of butchers, I come from!

frostbarter
10-12-07, 22:14
Thank you very much, that is just what I wanted it to be, I just couldn't see it lol. He was a calf foot dresser in an earlier census lol.

Barbara

Olde Crone Holden
10-12-07, 22:16
Frostbarter

Glad to see he went up in the world of work!


(Hhahahahahaha!!!! I'm soooooo funny, sometimes)


OC

Merry Monty Montgomery
10-12-07, 22:17
It is indeed Tripe Dresser....and I don't know what is so funny! Several of my ancestors were Tripe Dressers. Large family of butchers, I come from!

Only funny because most people don't seem to like tripe!

I too come from a line of butchers, back to 1803 and maybe beyond that, I don't know!!

Merry Monty Montgomery
10-12-07, 22:18
Frostbarter

Glad to see he went up in the world of work!


(Hhahahahahaha!!!! I'm soooooo funny, sometimes)


OC

*Reminds OC she has had a sense of humour bypass conducted by her brother*

Lyn A
10-12-07, 22:19
....Was just joking, Merry...honest! LOL!!
I can't stand tripe, either!! And can't think of anything worse than preparing it and semi cooking it for a living!! Yuk!!

frostbarter
10-12-07, 22:22
LOL, did he go up in the world, is a tripe dresser better than a calf foot dresser.

Barbara

Anne in Carlisle
10-12-07, 22:26
Well its higher up the calf anyway!
Anne

Merry Monty Montgomery
10-12-07, 22:41
lolol!!

I always wonder what these peoples homes must have smelled like??

I suppose people with ordinary jobs still have "personal odour" to contend with :D, but tripe dressers, butchers, anything to do with fish, leather curers etc etc etc....yuk!! lol