Victorian employment

[milchmanuk]

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i was looking some years ago at census copies of my fathers family in London.
one of his aunts employments was written on the census as " water musician "
i was asked by one of my brothers what this employment was.
i could only respond to it as a public convivence attendant ?
( LOL )
does any one know what it might of been,
certainly nothing to do with George Fredrich Handel of the time !

thx.......

[Jose Oranto]

Here you can find occupations recorded in the 1891 census
http://www.census1891.com/occupations-c.php

If a waterman means 'someone who worked with or on boats usually on rivers', a water musician should mean a musician who works on a boat, like Wallace Hartley and his band in the Titanic 😉🎻

[milchmanuk]

Here you can find occupations recorded in the 1891 census
http://www.census1891.com/occupations-c.php

If a waterman means 'someone who worked with or on boats usually on rivers', a water musician should mean a musician who works on a boat, like Wallace Hartley and his band in the Titanic 😉🎻

thx for that.
i had thought of this.
i remember when i was young someone mention this occupation at Margate . seafront in the heat of summer. whilst on holiday or day trip.

[milchmanuk]

also location was Battersea London as residence, by Latchmere baths.
so perhaps at water spar or on the Thames.