Thank you both for your insights. Both responses were very helpful. In a later census he was listed as a 'porter', so I guess he was pulling or carrying something. M -----Original Message----- From: nybrooklyn-request <[email protected]> To: nybrooklyn <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, Jul 8, 2012 3:30 am Subject: NYBROOKLYN Digest, Vol 7, Issue 127 Today's Topics: 1. Re: Occupation of CARMAN in 1870 ??? (Marshall Lake) 2. Re: Occupation of CARMAN in 1870 ??? ([email protected]) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 ate: Sat, 7 Jul 2012 06:02:47 -0700 (MST) rom: Marshall Lake <[email protected]> ubject: Re: [BKLYN] Occupation of CARMAN in 1870 ??? o: [email protected] essage-ID: <[email protected]> ontent-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Does anyone know what the occupation of 'carman' meant in 1870??? I always assumed ( probably mistakenly) that it had something to do with trolley cars, either a conductor or ticket taker, but now I'm thinking it might be someone who pulled a horse-driven cart, as in moving materials or 'peddling' foodstuffs. Any educated thoughts out there? A google search got many hits. One is: ttp://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~carman/occupation.htm -- arshall Lake -- [email protected] -- http://www.mlake.net ----------------------------- Message: 2 ate: Sat, 7 Jul 2012 13:28:53 -0400 (EDT) rom: [email protected] ubject: Re: [BKLYN] Occupation of CARMAN in 1870 ??? o: [email protected] essage-ID: <[email protected]> ontent-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Hi Marshall, Any way you view it in 1870, it sounds as though you are on the right rack. LOL They also had horse drawn omnibuses at that time. You may want to isit your local library and view some photographic books of your location of nterest. Barb etro NYC Researcher [email protected] writes: > Does anyone know what the occupation of 'carman' meant in 1870??? I > always assumed ( probably mistakenly) that it had something to do with > trolley cars, either a conductor or ticket taker, but now I'm thinking > it might be someone who pulled a horse-driven cart, as in moving > materials or 'peddling' foodstuffs. Any educated thoughts out there? A google search got many hits. One is: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~carman/occupation.htm -- Marshall Lake -- [email protected] -- http://www.mlake.net ----------------------------- To contact the NYBROOKLYN list administrator, send an email to [email protected] To post a message to the NYBROOKLYN mailing list, send an email to [email protected] __________________________________________________________ o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] ith the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of he mail with no additional text. nd of NYBROOKLYN Digest, Vol 7, Issue 127 *****************************************