if you lived then

[burntcopper]

AFP lot may remember me pointing out something when camping (can't remember if it was before or after our plans for the apocalypse), where I'd come across some bugger bemoaning that no-one these days had any idea about the land, and how would we do in our ancestors' place as peasants when confronted by the situation. Which led me to go 'excuse me

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[artela]

Farmers on mother's side (as in actual farmers, not farm-labourers). On Father's side skilled craftsmen (Copperwork, Pottery, that sort of thing).

[akadougal]

Farm labourers and fishers and iron workers.

[taraljc]

Miners, butter merchants, loan sharks and horse thieves.

[jovieve]

On the side I know about? Sailors (men) and domestic workers (women). Many, many generations of sailors and domestic workers.

[sheldrake]

On one side, the name would suggest cart-makers/menders. On the other - farmers and market gardeners who suddenly decided one day in the 17th century to all become schoolteachers.