waspexile
20-11-2006, 7:22 PM
My gg grandfather started his working life around 1870 as a live-in coachman, with stables, to a retired Admiral. After he married and had children he became a "coachman domestic" living in at least 9 different addresses, mainly in the centre of Brighton.
Does anyone know of a good source work that gives a bit of background to this obviously varied job?
All I have been able to find out is that around the 1880s he was using livery stables at an address in Brighton.
Would he have owned his own carriage and horses? or rented them by the day?
Would he have had a regular employer (after 1880 the family were always living in their own small house)?
Would he ply his trade on the seafront/parks/theatres or was that the sole preserve of hansom cabs?
He retired around 1910 whne he was 60ish.
Any ideas gratefully received.
Does anyone know of a good source work that gives a bit of background to this obviously varied job?
All I have been able to find out is that around the 1880s he was using livery stables at an address in Brighton.
Would he have owned his own carriage and horses? or rented them by the day?
Would he have had a regular employer (after 1880 the family were always living in their own small house)?
Would he ply his trade on the seafront/parks/theatres or was that the sole preserve of hansom cabs?
He retired around 1910 whne he was 60ish.
Any ideas gratefully received.