Far from being able to claim to be the descendants of kings and queens, for most of us our ancestors had far more humble and less glamorous professions.
The young women were kept busy as they helped more senior maids with their tasks and also assisted cooks in the kitchen. Rat Catcher The rat catcher had the unenviable task of catching and killing rodents that roamed in homes and businesses in towns and cities. Many Irish emigrants were employed as lamp lighters in their new homes with 60 reported working in the US industry alone in 1900 according to the census.
Computer Contemporary computers in the 1800s and 1900s were far from the machines that we know now. Instead they were workers, usually women, who calculated numbers for companies. Snob Unlike the modern insult the then snob was very useful and was a cobbler responsible for repairing people’s shoes.Compositor A compositor worked at a rapid pace arranging lines of typeset to produce daily newspapers. Irishmen were recorded working in the fast paced profession in London and Wales.