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??
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??
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