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From: "Andrew Sellon" <>
Subject: Re: [HWE] Occupation
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 10:44:41 -0000
References: <20041203035749.7DBB82F997@ws6-3.us4.outblaze.com>


Peter -

A little earlier than the labours of your cousin, but I have a note of a
William Sellon, Embroiderer of Saint Botolph Aldersgate, in 1700.

In today's terms being an embroiderer does not sound a particularly male
occupation. Could it then mean, perhaps, that he was the owner of an
embroidery workshop or retail business do you think?

This was before the days of the Jacquard Loom.

Yours Aye Andrew Sellon East Anglia

From: <>
<snip>>
> Well you could have blown JP down with a feather. He finds a Mary Roy.
> Occupation "Fancy Business" at Chrystal Palace.
>
> Well laugh and much mirth as my, French as a first language, cousin writes
> to ask me "... cousin Pierre.. please can you explain.. fancy businees ? "
>
> So all you intrepid sleuths of genealogical research. Anyone wish to offer
> just how I can describe the occupation of "Fancy Business" to my poor
> cousin ?
<snip?


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