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EQUAL OPORTUNITY.
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Victor | Report | 22 Aug 2005 10:36 |
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Just been doing a search and came up with the following. See bellow. Victor |
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Victor | Report | 22 Aug 2005 10:38 |
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1861 Census Head of house aged 25 Male occupation Bricklayer Labourer. Wife aged 20 occupation Bricklayer. Has anyone found anything like this before. I think it may be a mistake, but what a good one. Victor |
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The Ego | Report | 22 Aug 2005 10:48 |
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More than equal opportunity there Victor.......! He mixed the mortar up and fetched the bricks. She laid them being the skilled tradesperson. Very unusual I would be sceptical But I'd like it to have been true :-) |
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Victor | Report | 22 Aug 2005 11:26 |
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Alter I feel this may get the sexist replies coming my way. Why not a woman bricklayer with a husband as her labourer. Victor |
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The Ego | Report | 22 Aug 2005 12:26 |
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In those days bricks were imperials,even bigger than present day ones,and a brickies hand would be normally broad to handle this.Ive met women with big hands-farming stock and the like,but in those days it just wasnt a womans place,and is still a rarity today. Plumber yes(a very sucessful one in Darlington) Electrician yes Joiner yes (a relative of mine in oz is one and her husband is a plasterer) I believe Winston Churchill could lay bricks-90 an hour,I'm told-one of his servants/gardners would mix the mortar up. There will always be people who go against the norm and prove people wrong,maybe she was one. |
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~ Oleander | Report | 22 Aug 2005 14:32 |
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My husband mixes the concrete and I am the mason....and do the technical stuff!!! So still goes on today!! Jacquie xxxx |
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Sarah | Report | 22 Aug 2005 16:02 |
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I have a family where the husband and wife are both listed as Chairmakers in two conseq. census'. I believe they owned a shop hence the wife (and son!) being involved too! It made me do a double take when I read it but I'm actually quite proud to have her in the family! Sarah |
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