My greatgreat grandfather was a cowkeeper his father was a market gardener and his brother a dairyman all in Peckham I believe that he took his cattle out to a farm to feed them up and brought them back to Peckham to sell their milk, he named his son after the farmer and his daughter after his wife. I believe that they were Welsh immigrants in early 1800s but open to debate Philip Maddocks ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gillian Hawkins" <ghawkins@shaw.ca> To: <eng-surrey@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 9:51 PM Subject: Re: [SRY] John May, Cow Keeper, Peckham Camberwell area about 1840s > Hi Elizabeth, > > Occupation Cow keeper - one who kept one or more cows in cities when a > cow > was kept in the back yard of a house providing milk which was sold. > Forerunner of the local dairy. > > HTH > Regards Gill in Canada > > > > . > *************************************** > Send your List messages using **PLAIN TEXT** and always **TRIM AWAY** > superfluous old messages in replies. > > List Admin can be contacted at: Eng-Surrey-admin@rootsweb.com > . > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-SURREY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >