The Blogging from A to Z Challenge is to post everyday (except Sunday) in the month of April 2020 starting with the letter A and going all the way to Z. My theme is...
Ancestor Occupations
PIG FARMER
My 3rd great grandfather William Carter was born November 1779 in the parish of Pilling in Lancashire, England.
William was a pig farmer on a Fold House Farm of 41 acres.
There were Carter pig farmers at Fold House down through the ages.
Pigs from Pilling were flown to Yugoslavia in 1953. Although none belonged to a Carter, the pigs may be descended from Carter pigs.
Fold House was eventually turned into a Caravan Park and won the Caravan Holiday Park of the Year award from Tourism Awards in 2004-2005
My grandfather used to have pigs when I was little. Big family pig slaughter was still a tradition in the village at the time; everyone got together, got drunk, killed the pig, and the processed all of it in one day.
ReplyDeleteThe Multicolored Diary
That would be a fun day (except for the killing the pig part)
DeleteMy late MIL grew up on a hog farm. SHe said she envied her friends who got to eat turkey for Thanksgiving because it was always pork.
ReplyDeleteI like a good roast pork, but not that much to give up a turkey lol
DeleteA pig farmer from Pilling..very alliterative. I wonder why they exported those ones to Yugoslavia, presumably because of quality. Our ancestors could have had a symbiotic relationship as my 2xgreat grandfather was a pork butcher.
ReplyDeleteHaha as soon as I first read it aloud “pig farmer from parish of Pilling” I thought that too.
DeleteI once tried a smoked pork chop and, I’ll be darned, it tastes like ham! Haha!