What does a carrier carry!? Or am I misunderstanding the nature of that job!?
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Position:Home>Genealogy> According to the 1911 census in Ireland, my great grandfather was a carrier. WhaQuestion: According to the 1911 census in Ireland, my great grandfather was a carrier!. What is that job!? !? What does a carrier carry!? Or am I misunderstanding the nature of that job!?
thanks!. Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Carman/Charman/Carrier/Carter/Cartman Driver of (horse-drawn) vehicles for transporting goods!. Carmen were often employed by railway companies for local deliveries and collections of goods and parcels!. Modern day van driver!. A Carter typically drove a light two wheeled carriage!. also sometimes someone who drove horse-drawn trams was called a Carman!. http://rmhh!.co!.uk/occup/c!.htmlWww@QuestionHome@Com I'm reading Thomas Hardy's "Under the Greenwood Tree" and this morning got to the page where Dick Dewy gives out his business card on which he calls the family business 'Tranters and Hauliers' and goes on to read: "Furniture, Coals, Potatoes, Live and Dead Stock removed to any distance!.!.!." Perhaps a carrier was the same sort of thing!?Www@QuestionHome@Com A Carrier was a Carter, some one who drove a horse and cart to carry a variety of things, from place to place, like a Haulier with his truck/lorry does today!.Www@QuestionHome@Com he carried messages from bunkers to hq what was a job like a pigeon just safer and you would have a life line of about 3 days if your lucky!. like hitler was a carried in world war 1Www@QuestionHome@Com He carried thingsWww@QuestionHome@Com coal!?!?Www@QuestionHome@Com |