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Unknown | Report | 20 Feb 2006 12:43 |
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Drover Ta Lin |
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Merry | Report | 20 Feb 2006 12:44 |
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Someone who drives a herd of animals from one place to another, on foot. Merry |
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Angela | Report | 20 Feb 2006 12:45 |
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A drover is someone who drives herds of cattle or other animals around from one place to another, for example from the farm to market. |
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Unknown | Report | 20 Feb 2006 12:47 |
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Oh thanks chaps - this is his occupation in 1881 so could he by 1901 become a butcher? Lin |
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Angela | Report | 20 Feb 2006 12:50 |
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I would think that going from drover to butcher would be quite usual. After all, they are both concerned with farm animals and getting them to the consumer!! |
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Unknown | Report | 20 Feb 2006 12:51 |
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Thanks Angela Lin |
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Heather | Report | 20 Feb 2006 12:55 |
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Do you know they used to walk geese all the way from Norfolk to London? Can you imagine what a pain that must have been! |
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The Ego | Report | 20 Feb 2006 13:12 |
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Drover>>>butcher..........mmmm Bit like............ Carpark attendant >>>>>scrap dealer :)))) |
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Keith | Report | 20 Feb 2006 13:39 |
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Cattle from Scotland to London, and Sheep from the West Country are two others. If you find a Ship Inn in the middle of a Wiltshire village there will be a drove road nearby as it is a corruption of Sheep Inn. :-) Keith (Alter ego -like it!!) |
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Researching: |
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Heather | Report | 20 Feb 2006 15:49 |
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Unmade road round here (Norfolk) are still called 'droves' |
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