Genealogy Chat

Can anybody tell me what the occupation, CARMAN is please? Dave

Usually means he drives a delivery (horsedrawn) cart doing deliveries etc.

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. Also sometimes someone who drove horse-drawn trams was called a Carman. OLD OCCUPATIONS: remove brackets ( ) http://www(.)rmhh(.)co(.)uk/occup/index(.)html Cheers. Tony Oz

Thanks folk for your reply. I'm sorry, I misphrased my question. My fault. I knew it was driver of a cart or similar. What I should have asked is: Was he likely to be in the brewing industry? In Norwich he was a carman, Earlier in Marylebone he was a cellar man and before that a wine cooper. Thanks again dave

If he was delivering for a brewery he would have been a drayman

my grandad was a carman be drove a lorry until 1946 for a removal firm and before that a horse and cart, my dad was a coal carman he delivered the coal on a lorry. any help i think they were the equivalent to our lorry drivers now, any help. diana

Hello Dave, Deliverers of ale to pubs etc normally referred to as 'carriers'. Regards Roy.

So do we think he left the brewery industry? Some of the family were baptists, so perhaps that is why? Dave

Some of my family were baptists too - didn't stop me from becoming a brewer - mind you, when they died my name was conspicuouslyabsent from any wills!!