Surnames That Prove Your Ancestor Had a Job Nobody Wanted

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• HI

  @historicdave1 · 1 month ago · pinned

  What's your surname — and did it turn out to be a job? Drop it below and I'll tell you what your ancestor was doing for a living.

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• BE

  @Beardwing_The_Befuddled · 1 month ago

  My surname is Bulljerker.  I have no idea what my ancestors did

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• DI

  @Didi_Meow_Records · 1 month ago

  <b>Every time someone leaves a comment somewhere (anywhere)on Youtube, a new stick figure documentary channel is born</b>

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• MI

  @Misiulo · 1 month ago

  Johnny Walker will never taste the same...

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• MI

  @michaelstora70 · 1 month ago

  My genealogy research has led me to belief that about half my ancestors were, in fact, women.

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• AR

  @art_of_vaul · 1 month ago

  Omg, and they named the cousin that pisses the bed Fuller in &quot;Home Alone.&quot;

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• WI

  @WildGlitches · 1 month ago

  Modern career advice: &apos;Follow your passion.&apos; Medieval career advice: &apos;Your job is so completely miserable that we’re legally changing your family name to it forever.😂

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• JA

  @jamescrawford1534 · 1 month ago

  Sawyer is still a job today, not just with wood, but in welding workshops across the world, any man who cuts metal i to precise sizes with a bandsaw is still referred to as a sawyer

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• ME

  @MemFunk · 1 month ago

  My distant uncle Richard Gooner had a reputation for the strongest hand shake in the kingdom

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• GU

  @guitfdlr · 3 weeks ago

  AI&apos;s concept of sawing wood is hilarious.

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• SH

  @sharondornhoff7563 · 1 month ago (edited)

  Mills weren&apos;t just dangerous because of the heavy grinding machinery; flour dust is highly explosive, and could easily be set alight by stray sparks or open light sources of the time.

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• AB

  @aboutsixbeersdeep · 1 month ago

  I’m quite certain at least one of my ancestors was a woman.

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