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    I was researching a new twig on my tree yesterday - A lady I had decided had died in her childhood as she vanished between the 1841 and 1851 census, turned out to have married and didn't die until 1912! lol

    Anyway, I was a bit surprised to see one of her sons was a phrenologist (of all things!) in 1891! So, that's ag lab to phrenologist after three generations;

    Ag lab
    House painter
    Accountant
    Phrenologist

    Or I can do labourer to architect in the same number of generations;

    labourer
    gas fitter
    school master
    architect

    or labourer to MP in the same;

    labourer
    hat maker
    tea merchant
    MP

    In almost every case, the generation following the three increasing in success seems to have dropped back a bit!

    I've tried to find families that went the other way, without success, probably because I don't have any landowners to speak of in my tree (ie landowner to ag lab in three generations because everything went to the eldest son)

    So, just for fun, what patterns do you have in your tree??

  • #2
    I haven't found anyone with an interesting job yet... 99% of my ancestors appear to be coal miners or ag labs

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    • #3
      LOL, didn't take myself into account! So coal miner, coal miner, coal miner, linguist

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Merry Monty Montgomery View Post

        In almost every case, the generation following the three increasing in success seems to have dropped back a bit!
        Not sure that mine increased then dropped back, perhaps constant then seemed to fall off a cliff in the fourth generation................guess which generation i am :o


        I suppose the nearest i get in reality is my Norfolk farming family.

        Farmers (300 acres employing 10% of the town population) c1820-1880
        Shop owner/wholesale importer c1870-1900
        Property owner/landlady (6 properties)1900-1956
        Factory Labourers 1920's-1960's

        Starting with the same farmers again another descendant line goes up and down like a yoyo

        Farmers
        Company Founder (sold in the 1930's to a major multinational, the proceeds of the sale were used to fund a love of fine whisky!!)
        Clerks Assistant
        World authority on "Opera within Society", (a lady who despite her 70+ years still travels the world today giving lectures and speeches about opera, as well as having several highly regarded books published on the subject)

        One surname i have moved to Lancs, well one family group did anyway, father was a surgeon (early 1800's), it seems that in the modern day several companies within Lancs have directors with the same (unusual) surname but as yet they haven't been linked together.
        http://www.flickr.com/photos/50125734@N06/

        Joseph Goulson 1701-1780
        My sledging hammer lies declined, my bellows too have lost their wind
        My fire's extinct, my forge decay'd, and in the dust my vice is laid

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        • #5
          Interesting thread (I can see we are all bored while waiting for 1911 to appear, lol!

          I have some interesting changes with just one person, my gt gt grandfather who went from
          footman
          butler
          lodging house keeper
          beadle and vestry messenger
          overseer of the poor & coroner's officer

          but most generations read
          husbandman
          ag lab
          ag lab
          oxman
          ag lab
          lab

          and variants thereof.

          Off to shin up the family tree to see if I can pluck more interesting fruit now.
          ~ with love from Little Nell~
          Chowns, Dunt, Emms, Mealing, Purvey & Smoothy

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          • #6
            Husband's London ancestors have

            shoemaker
            clerk
            furniture broker
            paper stainer

            and

            attorney
            watchmaker
            sgt major
            ~ with love from Little Nell~
            Chowns, Dunt, Emms, Mealing, Purvey & Smoothy

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            • #7
              my direct ancestors (father's side)

              lab, ag lab, farmer
              ag lab/fisherman/railway plate layer
              fisherman/labourer/marsh labourer
              distiller's servant/brewery servant/photographic artist/picture frame maker
              bus conductor

              Mum's side

              ag lab
              game keeper
              ag lab
              indoor manservant
              blacksmith/shoe repairer/chauffeur
              ~ with love from Little Nell~
              Chowns, Dunt, Emms, Mealing, Purvey & Smoothy

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              • #8
                miner
                miner
                miner
                electrician (sometimes in a coal mine,lol)
                electronics engineer
                Heather

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                • #9
                  I can't do progress up the social scale in one person - but the dramatic difference in three generations of my family is quite good:

                  comedian/songwriter (born c1822)
                  actress (born 1841)
                  princess (born 1884)
                  Zoe in London

                  Cio che Dio vuole, io voglio ~ What God wills, I will

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                  • #10
                    princess (born 1884)
                    lol!!

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                    • #11
                      only by marriage, but I suppose it's a job
                      Zoe in London

                      Cio che Dio vuole, io voglio ~ What God wills, I will

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                      • #12
                        erm......

                        *fights hard to beat Zoe*


                        Mariner
                        Customs Officer
                        General Merchant
                        Magistrate and West India Merchant
                        Solicitor
                        Clerk of the Parliaments (married 2nd cousin of the Queen mum)
                        Estate Agent (superior properties!! lol)
                        Academic Director of The Prince's Drawing School

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Merry Monty Montgomery View Post
                          erm......

                          *fights hard to beat Zoe*


                          Mariner
                          Customs Officer
                          General Merchant
                          Magistrate and West India Merchant
                          Solicitor
                          Clerk of the Parliaments (married 2nd cousin of the Queen mum)
                          Estate Agent (superior properties!! lol)
                          Academic Director of The Prince's Drawing School
                          Sounds like a poker hand that went from low pairs to a royal flush.........think i might have to fold :D:D
                          http://www.flickr.com/photos/50125734@N06/

                          Joseph Goulson 1701-1780
                          My sledging hammer lies declined, my bellows too have lost their wind
                          My fire's extinct, my forge decay'd, and in the dust my vice is laid

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                          • #14
                            This is probably the one I am most impressed by:

                            Drunkard (son of drunkard and t*rt) b 1824

                            Director of Co-operative Wholesale Society in Manchester and grand Master of Lodge. b 1866

                            Opera singer b 1891.

                            And then it goes downhill till it reaches me!

                            Probably the most stupendous rise of one person was:

                            Ag lab to

                            owner of 7000+ acre estate in the West Indies.

                            Made me wonder if blood will out, because he was a very distant direct descendant of a once huge land owning family, whose wealth had dissipated down the years, leaving them all scratching around a few acres.

                            OC

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                            • #15
                              Ag lab to

                              owner of 7000+ acre estate in the West Indies.
                              I doubt anyone could beat that! lol Did he go out there with nothing?

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                              • #16
                                who was the princes? i have solicitors, gentry and ladies. my great grandmother was a lady.

                                and a separate branch were wealthy landowners who married into scottish aristocracy.

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                                • #17
                                  Merry

                                  No, he was left an estate out there by an unmarried uncle and he enlarged it.

                                  Uncle got it as a land grant awarded for fighting in the American War of Independence.

                                  It was still a shock to see my ag lab, who had been the subject of several removal and settlement orders, soaring upwards like a rocket!

                                  OC

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                                  • #18
                                    I think I have

                                    ag lab

                                    ag lab

                                    gardener

                                    Manager of Sun Life Assurance Company in Malta and pro-Nazi propogandist ( imprisoned after WW2 for having committed acts likely to endanger the State)
                                    Joan died in July 2020.

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                                    • #19
                                      pmsl Joan!!! That's better than OC's! lol

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                                      • #20
                                        *Huffs off thread*

                                        OC

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