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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: Occupations
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 15:02:56 +0100


In message <000201bede57$55b37d60$>, Virginia Georgiou
<> writes
>Dear Listers,
>
>Could sks please help with occ's CARMAN and COMMERCIAL CLERK. I have an ancestor
>with a common name so the only way I thought to ensure it was the right one was
>to check the occupation. On his daughters marriage certificate he is down as a
>COAL PORTER.

>(I thought the Carman was my best bet - what do you think??)
I would think so - a carman delivers goods in a cart, so the transition
to coal porter is very reasonable -just a different sort of goods
delivery
A commercial clerk is educated, probably fairly well paid, white
collared and white handed, keeping ledgers and writing letters in
longhand. Unless he was caught with his hand in the till and was really
desperate, i can't see his taking on a heavy, dirty job.
--
Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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