Kathy Gardeners where employed by a) The Owners of Larger Houses and Grounds / Town Councils / Market Gardeners - also part time would ( like today ) have a roster of households they worked for. My 3XGt Uncle Edward was a Gardener, Living in Edgbaston and later Moseley, he worked for a time for the Cadbury's , but later also kept several churchyards and grounds tidy, and assisted a Market Gardener in the Harborne Area. ( This info. I have from his Gt Grandson, who did meet his Gt Grandfather as a small boy - and was intrigued as Grandfather wore his trousers tucked into his socks! ) hth Helen New Zealand -----Original Message----- From: Kathy [mailto:taffy65@ntlworld.com] Sent: Monday, 18 July 2005 8:44 a.m. To: ENG-WORCESTER-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [WOR] 1858 occupations Hi List, Whilst 'going through' the marriage registers at St John The Baptist Claines in between 1858 and 1868 I noticed that many of the occupations listed were Labourers or Gardeners. I can understand the labourers but why were their so many gardeners? Where did they garden? Regards Kathy BUNN,MERRICK ==== ENG-WORCESTER Mailing List ==== Transcribers wanted for Worcestershire FreeREG for more information see http://freereg.rootsweb.com UK Census on-line http://freecen.rootsweb.com/ http://www.worcestershiresurnames.co.uk/

Am not sure exactly what my great-grandfather did in Essex, likely he was an agricultural labourer, but by the time he got to Canada, in the 1870s, he had become a market gardener (a produce merchant), and several of his sons, including my grandfather, did become gardeners, looking after the gardens of prosperous persons and public parks and gardens as well. hth too, Carolyn Montreal, Canada So I would think "gardener" covers quite a bit of territory. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Helen Verrall" <hverrall@ihug.co.nz> To: <ENG-WORCESTER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2005 9:15 PM Subject: RE: [WOR] 1858 occupations > Kathy > > Gardeners where employed by a) The Owners of Larger Houses and Grounds / > Town Councils / Market Gardeners - also part time would ( like today ) > have a roster of households they worked for. > > My 3XGt Uncle Edward was a Gardener, Living in Edgbaston and later Moseley, > he worked for a time for the Cadbury's , but later also kept several > churchyards and grounds tidy, and assisted a Market Gardener in the Harborne > Area. ( This info. I have from his Gt Grandson, who did meet his Gt > Grandfather as a small boy - and was intrigued as Grandfather wore his > trousers tucked into his socks! ) > > hth > Helen > New Zealand > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kathy [mailto:taffy65@ntlworld.com] > Sent: Monday, 18 July 2005 8:44 a.m. > To: ENG-WORCESTER-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [WOR] 1858 occupations > > Hi List, > Whilst 'going through' the marriage registers at St John The Baptist Claines > in between 1858 and 1868 I noticed that many of the occupations listed were > Labourers or Gardeners. > I can understand the labourers but why were their so many gardeners? Where > did they garden? > > Regards > Kathy BUNN,MERRICK > > > > ==== ENG-WORCESTER Mailing List ==== > Transcribers wanted for Worcestershire FreeREG > for more information see http://freereg.rootsweb.com > UK Census on-line > http://freecen.rootsweb.com/ > http://www.worcestershiresurnames.co.uk/ > > > > > > ==== ENG-WORCESTER Mailing List ==== > FreeREG Project: parish register database > http://freereg.rootsweb.com > > UK Census on-line > http://freecen.rootsweb.com/ > http://www.worcestershiresurnames.co.uk/ >