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From: "John W Edwards" <>
Subject: Re: [OEL] occupations at the turn of the 18/19 th centuries
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 17:22:15 +0100
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Audrey
How about giving us the details you have got, and maybe we can come up with
some ideas?
John
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From: "norman lee" <>
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Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2007 4:51 PM
Subject: [OEL] occupations at the turn of the 18/19 th centuries


> Dear Listers
>
> I am wondering if you have any ideas of how I can find the occupation of a
> man mentioned as the father of a child baptised in 1801? As it was before
> most trade directories and also out of the period when the census could
> help, I am at a bit of a loss as to how I would find this information. He
> was living in Bethnal Green and I have a book that suggests the main
> occupations followed by the population there then but that doesn't tell me
> with any certainty what this man would have been doing. He must have sent
> his son to school as 29 years later his son joined the metropolitan police
> force. The qualifications for joining included an ability to read and
> write.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Audrey Lee
>
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