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Whatever happened to the Fullers? - kandrathe - 08-06-2017
One of my pet hobbies is ancestry, and so I am often amazed when people don't know the origin of their own surname. Most of these unknowns are often either dead professions, farm names or a variant of a language long forgotten.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Occupational_surnames
Some are still obvious like cooper, goldsmith, or carpenter. Others, not so much, like fuller, becker, or granger.
The tradition of taking the name of your profession is gone, so when newly dead professions like trucking, cabbie, chauffeur fall into the scrap heap of history there will be no legacy of surnames left behind.
RE: Whatever happened to the Fullers? - Alram - 08-06-2017
I had a brush with the Fullers once.
RE: Whatever happened to the Fullers? - kandrathe - 08-08-2017
Some old occupations sound hilarious, like knocker upper. Of course, try to explain Web master to anyone over 70.
RE: Whatever happened to the Fullers? - Alram - 08-08-2017
(08-08-2017, 06:19 AM)kandrathe Wrote:Hey! Age discrimination! I am almost 70, and I know what a web master is. However, I still have a typewriter, though I never use it anymore.
I wish I still had my old slide rule, just to impress people. And I am thinking of taking up the abacus. But, I digress.
RE: Whatever happened to the Fullers? - kandrathe - 08-08-2017
(08-08-2017, 10:11 AM)Alram Wrote:>Hint< It is not Spiderman.(08-08-2017, 06:19 AM)kandrathe Wrote:Hey! Age discrimination! I am almost 70, and I know what a web master is. However, I still have a typewriter, though I never use it anymore.
I wish I still had my old slide rule, just to impress people. And I am thinking of taking up the abacus. But, I digress.