Genealogy Chat

Hi To stop GR garbling the URLs, it seems you only need to make sure that you don't have "CO" straight after a dot. This applies even if it isn't the usual URL suffixes - it applies to any word that starts withthose two letters! I think they discount spaces as well, so it has to be something visible between to work - a bracket or an asterisk, whatever. In fact you can't have those two letters in isolation unless you have them in inverted commas. http://rmhh.*co.uk/occup/index.html Thanks for the extra URL - I've bookmarked that one now. Christine

This is a good one as well...... http://rmhh(.)co(.)uk/occup/index(.)html Lynda

There's also this site www*.rmhh*.co*.uk/occup/ - remove * before use. nell

I thought that's what it must have been...thanks ever so much for the replies! :o)

There's this site, which is frequently recommended: http://www.cpcug.org/user/jlacombe/terms.html altho' cabman doesn't crop up in that particular list. You can also put "define:" and then your word, e.g. "define: cabman" into Google, and see what comes up. Christine

Noun 1. cabman - someone who drives a taxi for a living cabby, cabdriver, hack driver, hack-driver, livery driver, taxidriver, taximan driver - the operator of a motor vehicle

Caroline, Yes I believe you are correct. The forerunner of today's taxi (or taxicab) was a Hansom Cab. A two wheeled vehicle pulled by a single horse, driven by the cabman from a seat outside at the rear, and having room for two passengers inside. Other horse-drawn vehicle drivers (carts/delivery vans) were carmen, and those working on long distance coaches were, not surprisingly, coachmen. Ian

Cabman? Is it an old name for what we would call a taxi driver?? Is there any websites that give descriptions of "old" trades? TIA Caroline