Embarrassing Occupation? …..

Post by **emanday** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 11:58 am

1901 Scotland Census
about Anna Mary Stewart
Name: Anna Mary Stewart
Age: 15
Estimated birth year: abt 1886
Relationship: Grandchild
Gender: Female
Where born: Dundee, Forfarshire
Registration Number: 282/4
Registration district: St Andrew
Civil parish: Dundee
County: Angus
Address: 7 Morgan Street
Occupation: Assistant Bonk Keeper

ED: 36
Page: 5 (click to see others on page)
Household schedule number: 24
Line: 2
Roll: CSSCT1901_101

bryoung · Post by **bryoung** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 12:19 pm

Emanday,

My Dad's occupation on my birth certificate is a STRIPPER

He was actually a Coal Stripper (worked at the coal face down the pits)

Bry

Post by **emanday** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 12:45 pm

bryoung wrote:He was actually a Coal Stripper (worked at the coal face down the pits)

Entertainment at the coal face, Eh?:lol:

Post by **joette** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 3:41 pm

I am visualising those Davy Lamps strutting their stuff!

I am trying to work out what an Assistant Bonk Keeper actually is?At first thought it must be Bank but as she is only 15 doubt it is that.
I am going to Google &see what comes up-maybe it had an innocent explaination in the 19th Century!!

Thrall · Post by **Thrall** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 4:09 pm

Hi Mary, might it be Assistant Book Keeper? Not so exciting I´m afraid...

Guid hunting,

Thrall

Post by **emanday** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 12:40 am

Hi Thrall, Yes, I thought the same thing, but it really amused me to see the way Ancestry had "transcribed" it

sheilajim · Post by **sheilajim** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 12:47 am

Hi Mary

I sometimes wonder what the transcribers on Ancestry were thinking of. Assistant Bonk Keeper.

I have come across some weird ones when looking at my old rellies too.

Oh well, I guess that they are good for a laugh.

Regards

Russell · Post by **Russell** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 1:09 am

Oooh they're cruel - keeping Bonks in cages. They should be allowed to run free just as we allow haggis whole mountains to run round.

Are there any haggis near the Sandyhills Beach Party site or have the English shooting parties sneaked over the border to bag them ?

All Bonks should be FREE

I think I'm going bonkers

Russell

Kathy · Post by **Kathy** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 2:49 am

But Russell, they may be wild bonks !!

Kathy

Russell · Post by **Russell** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 9:30 am

Kathy

Paisley Buddies never had problems with wild bonks. Theirs were always tame affairs. Its further out in the wilds of Renfrewshire that we have problems

Russell