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Wood Keeper

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AnnCardiff

AnnCardiff Report 21 Nov 2010 17:02

PDF]Nature Trail
Wood originally had its own wood keeper? A wood keeper is a person who lives in a wood and is paid to look after it. Coldfall Wood,. Creighton Avenue, N10 ...

www.haringey.gov.uk/coldfall_wood_trail_leaflet.pdf - Similar pages

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Breakspears of Berkshire and Cardiff, Williams and Harman of Whitchurch, Melingriffith &Tongwynlais,Glamorgan WE HAVE NO CONNECTION Do not share your tree with me

KempinaPartyhat

KempinaPartyhat Report 21 Nov 2010 16:59

We still have woodkeepers today dont know if they do the same thing
http://www.independent.co.uk/student/career-planning/getting-job/i-want-your-job-woodkeeper-822524.html

This may help

This maybe why we have wood keepers cottages on large estates

AnnCardiff

AnnCardiff Report 21 Nov 2010 16:47

possibly a gamekeeper?

Researching:
Breakspears of Berkshire and Cardiff, Williams and Harman of Whitchurch, Melingriffith &Tongwynlais,Glamorgan WE HAVE NO CONNECTION Do not share your tree with me

Cooper

Cooper Report 21 Nov 2010 16:23

Thanks RutlandBelle.

Teresa

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Helm Tappenden, Kitchen/Kitchin,(London) Cantwell (southern Ireland)

RutlandBelle

RutlandBelle Report 21 Nov 2010 16:19

I know Skellingthorpe and it would have been very rural back then with lots of farms and estates. Fairly flat as well so plenty of trees and woods, perhaps he looked after woods so that pheasants could be reared

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Cooper

Cooper Report 21 Nov 2010 16:13

Thanks DET. Think I need to look into the area where they lived or Parish records. Maybe that will shed some light.

Teresa

Researching:
Helm Tappenden, Kitchen/Kitchin,(London) Cantwell (southern Ireland)

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+++DetEcTive+++ Report 21 Nov 2010 15:47

Forester?? I suppose it depends what the area was like.

DET

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Cooper

Cooper Report 21 Nov 2010 15:33

I have an ancestor who lived in Skellinthorpe, Linconshire and on his Daughters wedding cert in 1874 it lists his occupation as a woodkeeper.

I have looked up on a Victorian Occupation Website and cannot find it listed.

I wonder if any one has any ideas.

Many thanks.

Teresa

Researching:
Helm Tappenden, Kitchen/Kitchin,(London) Cantwell (southern Ireland)