Transportation to Australia of convict, Sarah Murden

Today’s article is about my namesake - Sarah Murden (also written as Murdin), who was born on 16 February 1803, at Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, to parents John, a shoemaker, and his wife Ann née Beebby. Sarah’s younger brother, John followed in his father’s footsteps and he became a shoe maker; a traditional role in Northamptonshire, famed for its shoe industry. Sarah’s life, however, took a very different path…

https://georgianera.wordpress.com/2023/11/19/transportation-to-australia-of-convict-sarah-murden/

Today's #OccupationOfTheDay is…KNOCK-NOBBLER, PEACEKEEPER, or SLUGGARD WAKER:

A person employed to keep order, usually in church, by means of a large stick with which they would tap upon the heads of errant parishioners, typically unruly children or snoring adults. In earlier times they might also eject noisy dogs from a service.

📷 "The Veto", 1834 c/o Wellcome Collection #history

Off to the Forest of Dean for today's #StandingStoneSunday offering; The Long Stone near Staunton.

It's right next to a busy road, but if you can block that out it's a really lovely, tapering 7 foot tall stone in a beautiful woodland setting. (Portrait, needs a click)

In folklore, if you prick the stone with a pin at the stroke of midnight, it will bleed.

Visited October 2010.

#BronzeAge #StandingStone #Gloucestershire #ForestOfDean #Folklore

Today's #OccupationOfTheDay is…BUTTER CHURNER or BUTTER WORKER:

"tests cream to see whether it is at proper temperature for churning...pours ripe cream into churn; turns churn & decides when churning is complete; allows buttermilk to escape (from base) and takes out butter, puts it on table of working-up machine to be kneaded, and squeezes out superfluous moisture..."

Dict Occup'l Terms (1927)
#history #FamilyHistory #histodons
📷 Butter worker c.1910, c/o Library of Congress