Dancing Master

jaycee · Post by **jaycee** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 11:49 pm

Have recently found a marriage certificate, Parish of Carluke 1898, the groom's occupation Dancing Master.

Post by **marilyn morning** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 12:28 am

Hi Jaycee

I just tried a google and found this $\:D/$

In a world where social success depended upon knowing how to comport oneself, the dance master was expected to teach his students appropriate attitude and ...

www.answers.com/topic/dance

Regards
Marilyn

Post by **emanday** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 3:38 am

My grandmother and her sister were sent to a dancing master by their well off stepfather so that they would stand a better chance of "marrying well" within an acceptable class!

Didn't work, I have to say! True, they were both good dancers, but both married "beneath their station" into the "tradesman class".

Didn't stop my grandmother being called, behind her back I must stress, "The Duchess"

She was a perfect example of "millionaire tastes on a pauper's income"

She could also embroider and lay a table to a very high standard, but couldn't get sixpence value from sixpence (my grandfather's actual fond description

)

Post by **joette** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 12:16 pm

I have a Dancing Master in my line-McKimmies & I must say it sounds a more exciting life than Farming which most of the others seemed to follow as an occupation.