<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Re: [APG Public List] weird occupation</TITLE> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.18813"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>On the subject of occupations, the street one of my (then teenaged) ancestors is listed on in the UK 1841 London census has 3/4's of the neighbours listing their occupation as "prostitutes."  Ditto for neighbouring pages.  Later in life he was nicknamed "the Wanderer."   No wonder...</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Larry</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black">From: <A title=laura@lauraprescott.com href="mailto:laura@lauraprescott.com">Laura Prescott</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">To: <A title=apgpubliclist@apgen.org href="mailto:apgpubliclist@apgen.org">apgpubliclist@apgen.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 5:30 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">Subject: Re: [APG Public List] weird occupation</DIV> <DIV> </DIV>Alvie, I have to add Blenko Glass. It’s the company I think of most when I think of glass manufacturers in West Virginia. Laura (born and bred in West By-Gosh Virginia!) -- Laura G. Prescott Brookline, NH <A href="http://www.LauraPrescott.com">www.LauraPrescott.com</A> On 9/18/09 4:00 PM, "Alvie L. Davidson CG" <<A href="mailto:floridasearch@verizon.net">floridasearch@verizon.net</A>> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE>Hi Roland Having worked in the glass bottle manufacturing industry for 25 years I know there were many glass companies in West Virginia. A stripper could be anything in the glass plant also.  We had men and women who stripped waste off moulds. I was a glass bottle blower machine operator which made soda, beer, and liquor bottles before I moved on up to foreman who diagnosed operator problems. You might find this family worked for either Owens Glass or Owens-Illinois Glass.   Alvie L. Davidson CG Lakeland, Florida <A href="http://alviesgenealogyspot.blogspot.com">http://alviesgenealogyspot.blogspot.com</A> CG and Certified Genealogist are Service Marks of the Board for Certification of Genealogists used under license after periodic evaluations by the Board. </BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> _______________________________________________ APG Public Mailing List http://apgen.org/publications/publiclist/ </BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>