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Occupation help please
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Julie | Report | 3 Oct 2006 20:05 |
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Please can some one enlighten me to what a peddler is? I have this as an occupation for one of my ancestors. I have googled and come back with gypsie, could it mean anything else. Julie. |
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Yvonne | Report | 3 Oct 2006 20:09 |
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A Peddlar is someone who sold things from house to house Yvonne |
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Julie | Report | 3 Oct 2006 20:13 |
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So Would that would mean a gypsie then? Julie |
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Yvonne | Report | 3 Oct 2006 20:16 |
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It is an old word for a gypsy. But i found it under old occupations so i would have thought not, Yvonne |
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Julie | Report | 3 Oct 2006 20:22 |
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The only reason i ask is because my grandad always told us that he originated ffrom romany gypsies and i thought it was one of his tall tales that he used to tell us quite often to ammuse us, but am beging to wonder now, as my great grandmother'ss place of birth was canal!!! Julie |
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Yvonne | Report | 3 Oct 2006 20:27 |
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Could well be. It is an old word for a gypsy. |
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