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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: Occupations
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 13:24:25 +0100


In message <>, writes
>Dear Eve ,
>Thank you for your reply, the relative a distant cousins father describes
>himself on his marriage certificate as a Carman, on the birth certificate of
>his son he is Carriage Cleaner.
I think he gave up the one (driving around on carts in the wet) to do
the other (inside most of the time, and less humping and hauling).
>Our cousin has checked all the details with
>the appropriate railway authorities (either job name was used by them back
>in the early 1900s so says the man at the railway)

I would like to know who said this, and if there is any factuial
confirmation. Was it a young man who just saw the two occupations and
though, oh well, suppose so? It certainly doesn't fit any official
information I have ever seen, and no one else has ever said this in
England.

--
Eve McLaughlin

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

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