Monday 6 September 2021

Occupations of my four great grandfathers.

 

Robert Jackson b 1833 Kilbarchan Renfrewshire d ? 

He has a bit of a chequered story for his occupation during his lifetime.   From a wool handloom weaver in 1851 to silk weaver,wool weaver, pedlar/hawker and finally draper in 1911  From Kilbarchan in Renfrewshire to Campbeltown in Argylleshire as a pedlar and then Glasgow as a hawker and finally a pedlar. 


 Thomas White b 1854 Egerton, Kent; d 1923 Chilham, Kent 

Thomas was a typical farm labourer in villages  Egerton, Charing, Hinxhill, Boughton Aluph and Chilham.    The occupation is variously described as labouer, farm labourer and garden man on farm.

 

Albert Weston b 1855 Etchingham, Sussex; d 1931 Robertsbridge, Sussex 

From Etchingham to Salehurst and Robertsbridge he is described as a labourer, carter living on a farm and a farm labourer.

 

George William Clark b 1869 Ashford, Kent; d 1935 Hastings, Sussex 

From when he married in 1889 until his daughter's marriage he was a postman; first a rural postman and then a postman/letter carrier in Hastings.   His newspaper obituary states he was a postman for 41 years, retired in 1925 and received a long service award.