Occupation On Marriage Cert

[Ellie]

Quick question folks, could it be possible that a person would lie about his father's occupation on a wedding cert and get away with it? any ideas ?I'm back on the Percy F & George Ball hunt.

 

[gwenythgreen]

Quick question folks, could it be possible that a person would lie about his father's occupation on a wedding cert and get away with it? any ideas ?I'm back on the Percy F & George Ball hunt.

Hi Ellie

I would think it would go on a lot either diliberately or in error to make out that you came from a better family.

Gwen

 

[p.risboy]

Hi Ellie,

I don't know about lies, but they would more then likely 'talk themselves up'.

eg. Ag.lab = Farm Bailiff or Machine Engineer = Machine minder.

A bit like today really, Environmental Machine Operator = Dustbin Man.

Or another answer is, he's changed professions.

I had one that went from Ag.Lab to Policeman and then Pub Landlord.

Steve.

 

[Ellie]

I'm wondering whether one of the reasons why I'm struggling to find Percival Frederick and George Ball is because he (Percy) lied or exaggerated about his fathers occupation on his marriage cert?.

 

[benny1982]

My great grandmother said her father was a carpenter. He was a timber yard labourer.

Another one said her father was a coachman when he was an ag lab.

 

[davelambert271]

Hi
My grandfather was a publican and this was the only occupation my father knew of. My father fell out with his dad after his mother died and his dad re married. On his cert he was a fish frier, which we thought strange, as a few years later we knew he was still a publican.
So we had dismissed this occupation until the 1911 census came out. Sure enough he was a fish frier, so he must have had a temporary change of occupation!!
dave

 

[benny1982]

He must have had bigger fish to fry though. :2fun:

 

[duckweed]

Not necessarily lie. There are other reasons. Eg when my sister in law had to fill in fathers occupation she didn't know exactly, just what company he worked in. Or when my mum went for her birth certificate it listed her father's occupation as sock maker. It was during the depression and he was really out of work and borrowed a knitting machine from a relative and knitted mens socks and hawked them. He didn't do it for long but was doing it when his daughter was born. He was in fact a quarryman who later became a gardener/groundsman.

 

[Ellie]

Not necessarily lie. There are other reasons. Eg when my sister in law had to fill in fathers occupation she didn't know exactly, just what company he worked in. Or when my mum went for her birth certificate it listed her father's occupation as sock maker. It was during the depression and he was really out of work and borrowed a knitting machine from a relative and knitted mens socks and hawked them. He didn't do it for long but was doing it when his daughter was born. He was in fact a quarryman who later became a gardener/groundsman.

As regards his motives whether is a lie or misguided assumption It certainly is a mystery.