C18th century occupations.

[anne fraser]

As I was bored this afternoon and a lot of Somerset and Gloucestershire images of parish records have been added to ancestry I thought I would spend my time trying to find occupations for as many of my precensus ancestors as I could. Not much luck with the women but my favourite for the men is Fly driver. I know a fly was some sort of cart but I can't help thinking of something like Cinderella's coach. I also have a druggist and dealer which sounds very dodgy and a couple of boys working as pages. Most of the ones I found were Yeomen which covers a multitude of sins in my case a family of property speculators.