From: G6JPG@255soft.uk   
      
   On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 at 10:10:11, knuttle    
   wrote (my responses usually follow points raised):   
   >> On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 at 13:59:35, Colin Bignell    
   >>wrote  (my responses usually follow points raised):   
   >>> I'm new here, so please don't throw things if I have got the wrong group.   
   >>>   
   >>> First decade of 20th century, one of my ancestors entered House   
   >>>Breaker as his occupation on his marriage certificate. I am assuming   
   >>>he isn't admitting to a life of crime, but can anybody confirm or   
   >>>refute my assumption that he was what today would probably be called   
   >>>a  demolition operative? I.e. he knocked down houses, possibly   
   >>>reclaiming  anything with scrap value.   
   []   
   >This is not a definitive, but I did a internet search and the hits   
   >"House Breaker" was refereed to as a negative term.   
   >   
   >From the context of the hits, it appears to be what you first thought,   
   >some one who breaks into a house and sells his spoils   
      
   I think Colin was making what sounds like the reasonable point that he'd   
   be unlikely to put this on his marriage record! Even if he _was_ mainly   
   a burglar, I would imagine he'd put some other skill - or make something   
   up - for that.   
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