Liz wrote: > Hi Brad...Yes, I am well aware that Ag Lab covers an extremely large area of > skills BUT I've input all the people of that surname, in that town, on all > the censuses and can find none of them described as anything near being a > "School Master" which is what this man says at his son's wedding in 1854. I > feel sure the vicar must have been "mut an jeff" and got it wrong on his > son's Marriage Certificate. What was the bride's father's occupation? It's not unknown for a son (or daughter) to give their father a "promotion" so he appears on a par with their future father in law. Nor is it unknown for a father to be "promoted" above the future father in law. -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, Greinton and Clutton, SOM Asst OPC for Ashcott and Shapwick, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk

Yes, I realised that but they lived in a small town and I feel sure everyone would have known everyone. The bride's father was a labourer which is really what the groom's father should have been! I've looked around in case the censuses were not right and there was another person with the same surname. All those with the same surname in the town were all either Ag Labs. or Labs. Promotion to School master in 1854 seems crazy as he was an Ag Lab or Lab in all censuses! I did wonder if he taught on Sundays and therefore the vicar wrote that he was a school master. The son, ie the groom was either a sailor or a tailor...difficult to read. However, as he appears to be missing in 1851, I think he was probably a sailor! He was an Ag Lab in 1861 and once the railway arrived at his town he joined the railway as a porter and he continued like that, moving around (as they often did) until his death in 1900. Liz www.btinternet.com/~e.newbery OPC for Street, Somerset ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charani" <familyhunter@family-hunter.co.uk> To: <bristol_and_district@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2010 9:32 PM Subject: Re: [B&D] Musician -v- Coppersmith (was William Henry HARRIS c1825 BRISTOL) > Liz wrote: >> Hi Brad...Yes, I am well aware that Ag Lab covers an extremely large area >> of >> skills BUT I've input all the people of that surname, in that town, on >> all >> the censuses and can find none of them described as anything near being >> a >> "School Master" which is what this man says at his son's wedding in 1854. >> I >> feel sure the vicar must have been "mut an jeff" and got it wrong on his >> son's Marriage Certificate. > > What was the bride's father's occupation? > > It's not unknown for a son (or daughter) to give their father a > "promotion" so he appears on a par with their future father in law. > Nor is it unknown for a father to be "promoted" above the future > father in law. > > -- > Charani (UK) > OPC for Walton, Greinton and Clutton, SOM > Asst OPC for Ashcott and Shapwick, SOM > http://wsom-opc.org.uk > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BRISTOL_AND_DISTRICT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >