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  • Occupation Housebreaker

    housebreaker.jpgthis made me laugh talk about being honest ? or a mistranscription more like.

  • #2
    There is a thread on the Great War Forum about housebreaker being an occupation.
    Someone has given the following description: A housebreaker used to be someone who worked with bailiffs taking roofs. doors and windows off houses and cottages where the occupants were being dispossessed. Not exactly modern reclaimers but they were sometimes called this as they were reclaiming the property back for the landlord
    Source: http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/fo...owtopic=194301
    Elaine







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    • #3
      Or, more likely given the area, a horsebreaker!
      What did he do in other census?

      OC

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      • #4
        Same occupation on the 1911 census - housebreaker !
        Elaine







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        • #5
          oh really Elaine now I feel stupid , I did google it too but never found that, thought it might have meant Housekeeper

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          • #6
            I'd never heard of it before Val - just happened to find that link.
            Elaine







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            • #7
              Not a common occupation but a legitimate description of the job in the late 1800's early 1900's.
              Whoever said Seek and Ye shall find was not a genealogist.

              David

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              • #8
                Val, I saw these cards on today's Spitalfields Life and thought of you!

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                • #9
                  Oh wow! - well spotted, Jill.

                  Jay
                  Janet in Yorkshire



                  Genealogists never die - they just swap places in the family tree

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                  • #10
                    wow Jill how fascinating thanks for that, and thanks for the link it looks really interesting I used to live in the East End.

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                    • #11
                      It just shows that even the humble cigarette card of 1919 was a useful source of information - then and now.

                      What sharp eyes you have Jill, to spot that card.

                      merleyone

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                      • #12
                        The word "demolition", or something similar, would have helped!

                        The site with that card is certainly a find.

                        Christine
                        Last edited by Christine in Herts; 17-08-13, 22:48.
                        Researching: BENNETT (Leics/Birmingham-ish) - incl. Leonard BENNETT in Detroit & Florida ; WARR/WOR, STRATFORD & GARDNER/GARNAR (Oxon); CHRISTMAS, RUSSELL, PAFOOT/PAFFORD (Hants); BIGWOOD, HAYLER/HAILOR (Sussex); LANCASTER (Beds, Berks, Wilts) - plus - COCKS (Spitalfields, Liverpool, Plymouth); RUSE/ROWSE, TREMEER, WADLIN(G)/WADLETON (Devonport, E Cornwall); GOULD (S Devon); CHAPMAN, HALL/HOLE, HORN (N Devon); BARRON, SCANTLEBURY (Mevagissey)...

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                        • #13
                          I have saved the site to my favourites its really interesting to see the descriptions of the occupations they had .
                          Last edited by Guest; 18-08-13, 16:02.

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                          • #14
                            Arent they lovely. You see them at boot fairs or antiques fairs sometimes.

                            OH, and we have a genuine Black Cat metal advertising sign on our kitchen wall G found it in our barn about 35 years ago.

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                            • #15
                              I used to smoke Black Cat Heather.

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                              • #16
                                Wow. I didnt realise they were relatively recent Val.

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                                • #17
                                  they brought them back a few times see below

                                  Black Cat cigarettes were first introduced in the United Kingdom by Carreras Ltd. in 1904. The brand was named for a black cat that consistently used to sleep in the window of Carreras' Wardour Street shop; its appearance was so regular, that passersby used to refer to the business as 'the black cat shop'. The Black Cat brand was a pacesetter in the British tobacco market. Besides being among the first machine-made cigarettes to be sold, it was also a pioneering coupon brand. The brand hit its peak in the 1920s, and although cigarette coupons came to an end in Britian in 1934, it still continued to include collectable cigarette cards. Black Cats were withdrawn from sale during the Second World War. They briefly were brought back in 1957, but due to customer demand for filtered cigarettes, it disappeared from the market a couple of years later. They were brought back one more time, this time with a filter tip, beginning in 1976, and Black Cats continued to be sold in Britain until 1993.

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