Join us for the December Family Tree Study Club meeting, at which Wayne Shepheard will be presenting on the topic of occupations, once the employment of many, particularly in London, that are no longer practiced
There are many occupations described in historical documents or censuses that almost no one is gainfully employed doing any more.
If you go back centuries, not only will you find different types of jobs that no longer exist, but some of the bizarre ways in which people made a living. Seeing their descriptions is generally amusing (or abhorrent) but recognizing what they entailed may assist in reconstructing family histories and demonstrate how people fit into their communities.
It is from large historical urban centres like London that we learn most about the unusual jobs that occupied people in scratching out a living. Those areas were the locales of major industries as well as the dirtiest places to reside. The combination resulted in a host of undesirable occupations and, further, that represented the livelihoods of the most unfortunate segments of society.
The presentation will look at some of the most unusual occupations people had as well as how they fit into urban communities like London, under such categories as:
• Old occupations that are still in existence
• Weird occupations that are now obsolete
• Community workers
• Business & industry jobs
• Development during the Industrious Revolution
• Impact of the Industrial Revolution
• Victorian London occupations
• Exploitation of children
When & where?
The meeting will take place on Zoom, on Monday 8 December, 6.30pm (UK time)
How to join the meeting
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About the speaker
Wayne Shepheard has published several articles and two books – Surviving Mother Nature’s Tests and Genealogy and the Little Ice Age – which describe how climate change and other natural phenomena impacted our ancestors. www.discovergenealogy.ca
