In message <0b3101c4164d$cd03fce0$0100007f@lovegrove>, Sandra Lovegrove <sandra@lovegrove.org.uk> writes >Further to my recent posting about the "baker and coal dealer" in >Nottinghamshire, how about this is in Lambeth 1861: "Cowkeeper, coal and coke >dealer". you/ve got to diversify to keep going, especially in a rather poor area. God send the coal dust didn't get into the milk. They kept cows in tiny back yards, in the most unlikely places. -- Eve McLaughlin Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society