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Cork Cutter/Grocer
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BrianW | Report | 3 Nov 2004 14:00 |
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My ancestor Alfred Worboys married Jane Gorrod on 17/5/1869 in Shoreditch. |
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BrianW | Report | 3 Nov 2004 14:04 |
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On the marriage certificate the occupation of Jane's father, John Gorrod, is given a "Grocer". On the 1881 census her place of birth is given as Islington (IIRC, can't get into 1881 at the moment). Ages look consistent. I have found a Jane Gorrod born St Pancras in 1845 with father John, but his occupation is "Cork cutter". Is it likely that a cork cutter would later become a grocer, I wonder? |
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Unknown | Report | 3 Nov 2004 17:58 |
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Brian It's possible. I have labourers who became policemen, a blacksmith who became a chauffeur by way of shoe repairing (!) a labourer who became a milkman, a distillers' servant who became a picture framer. People changed occupations then, as now, because the job they had disappeared/because a better-paid one came along/because they married into a different workworld. nell |
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Louise2212 | Report | 3 Nov 2004 18:30 |
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so its possible that the son of a watchmaker could have became a railway repairer |
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