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From: "Polly Rubery" <>
Subject: Re: [OEL] occupations at the turn of the 18/19 th centuries
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 20:13:37 +0100
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Hi

Perhaps I should have qualified this by saying in "England and Wales", where
the baptism registers of the Church of England after 1813 give the father's
occupation and the civil registrations after 1st July 1837 give the father's
name on a marriage a child or the death of an unmarried daughter, the
husband's occupation on the death of his wife or widow, and his own
occupation on his death (and perhaps further qualified by "they should
give....").
Hope that makes things clear now
Polly
----- Original Message -----
From: "S Busmar" <>
To: "Polly Rubery" <>
Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2007 7:14 PM
Subject: Re: [OEL] occupations at the turn of the 18/19 th centuries


Polly...you aroused my curiosity about finding a man's occupation. I
have death write ups and marriage write ups on a lot of people...it does
not give their father's occupation.The census does say "farmer" "miller"
etc.Sometimes from newspaper articles it gives a workers name from some
source. Did I understand this wrong? I understand, the records you
mentioned would possibly have father's name...but his occupation?


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