CUTE JOTTINGS



"There are two lasting gifts we can give our children.
	  One is roots, the other wings."
					       (author unknown)

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ON THE KEYBOARD OF LIFE, ALWAYS KEEP ONE FINGER ON THE ESCAPE KEY

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Interesting details discovered during the process of indexing the British
1881 Census. (Found in the Ensign magazine of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints, March 1996, p. 58.)



* The wife, mother, and daughter of James Christmas were all named
  Mary Christmas


* Frank Guest was listed as a visitor


* Harriet Goodhand was listed as a domestic servant


* The families of William Lovegrove, Henry Dearlove, and William Darling
  all lived on the same block in Oxfordshire


* A woman named Rose married Robert Garden


* Emma Boatwright married a seaman


* Mr. Thorn lived in Rose Cottage


* Robert Speed, a bus driver and post runner


* Robert Robb, a detective officer


* Phoebe Brain, a scholar


* One woman's birthplace was listed as "in stage coach between Nottingham
  and Derby"


* John Pounder, a blacksmith


* William Scales, a piano maker


* Herman Hamberger, born in Greece


* Curious occupations: dirt refiner, hoveller, moleskin saver, piano puncher,
  sparable cutter, spittle maker, tingle maker, and whim driver


* Twin four-year-olds named Peter the Great and William the Conqueror


* Brothers named Seaman and Landsman


* The occupation of three daughters was entered as "They toil not, neither
  do they spin"