Either someone that makes walls (durr!) or someone extracting salt from seawater, or even: This would still have been an important job in 1881, and is only included because of its amusing connotations about pregnancy, I would imagine.
That was a profession in which an individual would wake others for work in the days before alarm clocks were a widespread thing.
Probably not – there were other far more popular words for those sort of things back then: Sampler of Drugs – well, yes, the pharmaceutical industry was booming, but would an 1881 Briton have called them “drugs”? So you could conceivably have caught them in Britain in 1881. Goldfish? Probably – they were introduced into Europe (via Portugal) in or around 1611. (And let’s get this straight out up-front: a cow-banger was simply another name for a farm hand working with cattle.) Well, there were certainly railways, turnips, midgets and cows around back then. This seems to be falling apart at every level, doesn’t it? But there’s still no evidence that it’s not real. It’s nothing that I am aware we ever published and we are not the London Genealogical Society. I saw this too and was intrigued and had a look in our magazine and archives and tried to follow up the reference from Jeff Kacirk’s website and book but couldn’t get anywhere. There is a Society of Genealogists in London though, and one of their researchers got back to me with this reply. Except, I didn’t, because the LGS doesn’t exist. I got in touch with the London Genealogical Society. I couldn’t find this particular card/book/page anywhere on there, though. And then, in addition, his books aren’t published by Sellers Publishing, Inc. He writes things about olde Englishe, so that bit kind of fits, but it seems that he hasn’t given us a book since 2005, although what he has given us looks very interesting. Something smells iffy here (probably due to the fish-bender doing his work), so let’s look more deeply into thisįirst off, I tried to get in touch with Jeff Kacirk. It even made the Independent:Īh – those pesky Victorians, eh? Always breaking the rules and poking fun at officialdom.
If you’re on Facebook or other social media service, you may well have seen this, which has been doing the rounds lately.
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