Butcher, baker, candlestick maker – discovering our ancestors’ professions can be one of the most fascinating elements of genealogy. Bryony Parsons explains how newspaper articles and marriage records helped her to explore the career of her 5x great grandfather.
MY BRICK WALL
Music was a passion for some of my 19th-century ancestors. My 4x great grandmother Priscilla Bennett was born in Sheffield in 1813 and married Thomas Kaye, who was a lay clerk. This was a professional adult singer who performed in an Anglican or Roman
