Dear Listers , Can anyone hazard a guess as to what a " driller " might have been ? This is given as the profession on my male relatives' marriage certificate , in Banbury 1908 . Thank you ! Rosalind .....
Hi Rosalind It could be several things, have you found him in 1901 or before, what was his occupation then? Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > Dear Listers , > Can anyone hazard a guess as to what a " driller " might have been ? This > is given as the profession on my male relatives' marriage certificate , in > Banbury 1908 . > Thank you ! > Rosalind .....
Nivard , No , I have failed to find him in 1911, so I've no clues : his father was a blacksmith , and brothers were drapery asst. and cabinet polisher . Regards , Rosalind ... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nivard Ovington" <ovington1@sky.com> To: <eng-banbury-area@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 6:30 PM Subject: Re: [BAN] What was a driller in... > Hi Rosalind > > It could be several things, have you found him in 1901 or before, what was > his occupation then? > > Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > > > >> Dear Listers , >> Can anyone hazard a guess as to what a " driller " might have been ? This >> is given as the profession on my male relatives' marriage certificate , >> in >> Banbury 1908 . >> Thank you ! >> Rosalind ..... > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > List archives are at > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/eng-banbury-area > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-BANBURY-AREA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >
Go on Rosalind Gis' a clue then <g> Let us know who he is with any details known (birthplace and year, father etc) You never know we might be able to dig him out of his hidey hole <g> Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > Nivard , > No , I have failed to find him in 1911, so I've no clues : his father was > a > blacksmith , and brothers were drapery asst. and cabinet polisher . > Regards , > Rosalind ...