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I've just found my first chimney sweep!!!!! LOL !!!.I'm chuffed to bits !!! Infact I have found loads !!! 3 generations of them !! lol. BUT apparently 4x GG was a master chimney sweep. Anyone come across this before ??? What's the difference between a master and a run of the mill chimney sweep ???xx

The master sent the kids up instead of himself.:))))

i havent, i come from a long line of seaman and coal miners but ....i was thinkinking about chimney sweeps the other day and what a horrible job it must of been lol. did they have to be small people have i been reading to many fairey stories lol.

Aaaaaaa that would add up Kay as my 3x grandfather was a chimney boy in the census. Rotten wotsit sending him up there!!! lololol Thanks for that xx

Puss it's on my mums side and the ones that I knew were all pretty short xx

I dont know if its true or not,,,,,,but if I was the master thats what I would have done.))))))ha,,,,, Probally he was experienced in the stacks of the old grand houses where they had one for each room,?

I was chuffed as well when I found out my Great Grandfather was a Chimney Swwep, as all others are either Ag Labs or just plain old Labs Linda

Must have been one h-ll of a job to get the clothes clean,,,,,,no Daz then,,,,,,,,,but then perhaps they never washed them,,,,,?

Hi Linda I know what you mean I do get bored with ag labs and labourers so tend to get a bit excited when I see something different xx

Muffy........I know who can tell you...........him from M-Poppins,,,,,,)))))

I haven't found any chimney sweeps yet but have a stonemason, who worked on the Rothchilds place in Oxfordshire? and a residence for Princess Eugenie (not Fergie and Andrew's daughter!). Would love to see if he is listed anywhere as being involved with the work. Liz

pmsl at Kay !!! PP was the princess Eugenie you are talking about one of Queen Victoria's daughters ?? xx

Just remembered him name---Dick Van Dyke,,,,,,,,,,,

Oooooh Clare they WERE London sweeps an' all !!! I hope they were that happy bless em xx

Chim chiminey Chim chiminey Chim chim cher-ee! A sweep is as lucky As lucky can be Chim chiminey Chim chiminey Chim chim cher-oo! Good luck will rub off when I shake 'ands with you Or blow me a kiss And that's lucky too Now as the ladder of life 'As been strung You may think a sweep's On the bottommost rung Though I spends me time In the ashes and soot In this 'ole wide world There's no 'appier bloke Up where the smoke is All billered and curled 'Tween pavement and stars Is the chimney sweep world When the's 'ardly no day Nor 'ardly no night There's things 'alf in shadow And 'alf way in light On the roof tops of London Coo, what a sight! I choose me bristles with pride Yes, I do A broom for the shaft And a broom for the flume Though I'm covered with soot From me 'ead to me toes A sweep knows 'e's welcome Wherever 'e goes Chim chiminey Chim chiminey Chim chim cher-ee! When you're with a sweep You're in glad company No where is there A more 'appier crew Than them wot sings 'Chim chim cher-ee Chim cher-oo!' On the chim chiminey Chim chim cher-ee Chim cher-oo!

Sorry Muffy I'm 10th gen Flirt pmsl Sxx

Haven't found any of them yet Steve !!!! I have a suspicion that my late grandfather was one but I think he spent all his time gambling and playing cards and didn't bother to turn up for the exam !!! pmsl xx

pmsl its in the blood both my boys have it lol Sxx

Muffy, don't know too much as only recently heard this info from an elderly relative I have not spoken to before a couple of months ago. I have just looked up some info and think it was somewhere built for the Empress Eugenie in Chislehurst, Kent, in the mid to late 1800's. Liz

We have quite a few.. mainly from Egham.... Pat