robert woodroffe fly master devizes

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Member Since: September 2004 Posts: 974 Send Message	Jan.jan	Report	24 Apr 2005 12:43
	I bought the magazine Your Family Tree and searched through the Wiltshire Trade Directory for 1848. There is a Robert Woodroffe there, listed as a fly master at St.Johns Street Devizes. Anybody know what a fly master is?
Member Since: June 2004 Posts: 3 470 Send Message	Phoenix	Report	24 Apr 2005 12:45
Member Since: June 2004 Posts: 3 470 Send Message	A fly was a sort of carriage. Could he have run a local cab service?
Member Since: December 2004 Posts: 3 387 Send Message	Slinky	Report	24 Apr 2005 14:31
	Found a fly master in the same family occupations trawling in census... Father, coachman, then Fly Proprieter, and then Fly Master... or was it the other way round... anyway... to do with coaches!! lol Anne :)))
Member Since: September 2004 Posts: 974 Send Message	Jan.jan	Report	24 Apr 2005 16:50
	Thanks for that. Jan