I don't know if this is the same "blood pudding" listed as an occupation, however... As a kid in Quincy, Massachusetts in the late 1950s,my mother would buy blood sausage (AKA black pudding) from a local Scottish butcher. Making it involved blood and oatmeal (and who knows what else. I remember m y mother commenting that the butcher wouldn't make during the summer. On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 3:00 AM, < [email protected]> wrote: > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Occupation: Black Pudding (Susan O'Connor-LIVE) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 22:25:58 -0400 > From: "Susan O'Connor-LIVE" <[email protected]> > Subject: [TGF] Occupation: Black Pudding > To: "[email protected]" > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > > > When researching a family in City Directories of Fall River, MA, one of > the men was listed with the occupation of "black pudding." At other times > his occupation was that of "carriage painter." Are these two occupations > synonymous? If not, what is a "black pudding?" > > ----------------------------- > > Susan M. O'Connor > > 508-397-8414 > > [email protected] > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > End of TRANSITIONAL-GENEALOGISTS-FORUM Digest, Vol 9, Issue 98 > ************************************************************** >

Black pudding or blood pudding was an old British food, purchased from a butcher. They are the same thing but different names were used in different parts of Britain, and I am familiar with both names. Christine Bell Green C&M Genealogical Research Sent from my iPad > On May 13, 2015, at 7:01 AM, C L Bence via <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't know if this is the same "blood pudding" listed as an occupation, > however... > > As a kid in Quincy, Massachusetts in the late 1950s,my mother would buy > blood sausage (AKA black pudding) from a local Scottish butcher. Making it > involved blood and oatmeal (and who knows what else. I remember m y mother > commenting that the butcher wouldn't make during the summer. > > > > On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 3:00 AM, < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> Today's Topics: >> >> 1. Occupation: Black Pudding (Susan O'Connor-LIVE) >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 22:25:58 -0400 >> From: "Susan O'Connor-LIVE" <[email protected]> >> Subject: [TGF] Occupation: Black Pudding >> To: "[email protected]" >> <[email protected]> >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >> >> >> >> >> When researching a family in City Directories of Fall River, MA, one of >> the men was listed with the occupation of "black pudding." At other times >> his occupation was that of "carriage painter." Are these two occupations >> synonymous? If not, what is a "black pudding?" >> >> ----------------------------- >> >> Susan M. O'Connor >> >> 508-397-8414 >> >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> >> >> End of TRANSITIONAL-GENEALOGISTS-FORUM Digest, Vol 9, Issue 98 >> ************************************************************** > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message