What on earth is this occupation??? .....

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Post by Jean Jeanie » Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:18 pm

Hi Paula

Thought I recognised the name.

I wonder what the occupation really is. Innkeeper to Bone Dead Manny :lol:

We really are lucky to have him in our family :shock:

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Post by LesleyB » Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:23 pm

The guy was a :
Bone Dust Manufacturer, employing 8 men and 4 women.
He's only a very side line so don't really want to waste credits on SP.
I dunno - the things I spend my money on..... :roll:
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Post by SarahND » Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:26 pm

eeeeuuuwgh... :shock: I hesitate to ask, but just how did he "manufacture" that stuff?

I'll have to rethink that extra respect I've been paying to his descendants 8)
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Post by LesleyB » Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:30 pm

Hi Sarah
Perhaps one of those occupations it is better not to think too deeply about...He must have had some kind of business arrangement with the local abbatoir. :roll:
I suspect it must be the same sort of stuff you can buy today as "bone meal" for the garden.

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Post by PaulaD » Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:33 pm

Och Lesley,

I didn't really want to know that :( . As Sarah said he was the only Bone Dead Manny in Scotland and that was far more interesting.
Anyway how do you "manufacture" bone dust :?:

Jean - hes the 2nd husband of Robert Cunninghams (1790-1835) wife Margaret Gowans. (Robert, son of Archibald & Elizabeth).
I'm stuck behind brickwalls and bored to tears so I've been looking at all sorts of very distant rellies.

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Post by SarahND » Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:36 pm

LesleyB wrote:Perhaps one of those occupations it is better not to think too deeply about... :roll:
I think you're right about that! If I have nightmares tonight I'll know who to blame :wink:

I guess I never stopped to think where that bone meal came from... and come to think of it :shock: No, I'd better not say... I think I remember taking that stuff in little tablets for calcium when I was pregnant :shock:

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Post by Russell » Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:47 pm

And why did they call it 'Bone meal' anyway :?: :?: :?:

I've never been offered a plate of it in a restaurant - have you :?:

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Post by Bob C » Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:47 pm

PaulaD wrote:Och Lesley,

Anyway how do you "manufacture" bone dust :?:

Paula
From Google:

Bone Dust - An abrasive composed of crushed and ground bones, which, when mixed with powdered chalk and pumice, is used to clean vellum bindings.

Bone Meal - A mixture of coarse ground and crushed bones used as fertilizer and animal feed, an excellent source of phosphorus.

Both are most frequently made from animal bones from the meat packing or rendering industries.

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Post by paddyscar » Mon Feb 05, 2007 12:39 am

Russell wrote:And why did they call it 'Bone meal' anyway :?: :?: :?:

I've never been offered a plate of it in a restaurant - have you :?:

Russell
Hi Russell:

Take it you've not eaten at one of the World-wide mass food emporiums under a red and yellow sign :?: :lol:

I was thinking that her 'bone dead manny' might have been a few steps worse than the 'bone lazy manny' :roll:

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Post by DavidWW » Mon Feb 05, 2007 10:01 am

LesleyB wrote:The guy was a :
Bone Dust Manufacturer, employing 8 men and 4 women.
He's only a very side line so don't really want to waste credits on SP.
I dunno - the things I spend my money on..... :roll:
You couldn't get better for fertilising the roses ...............it's the phophorous content you see !

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