Posted By:	J Christiansen
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	Subject:	Re: Olsen,Charles 1834 Oslo please read and help
	Post Date:	May 12, 2012 at 19:30:08
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	Forum:	Olsen Family Genealogy Forum
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All his jobs seem to be on ships and boats or working on the waterfront. Lightermen were workers who transferred goods between ships and quays, aboard flat-bottomed barges called lighters in the Port of London. Longshoreman: dock worker: somebody whose job is to load and unload cargo vessels in a port What jobs does "longshoreman" include? These sorts of men also "work along the shore" - a man who mends waterfront machinery; the man who cleans up rubbish along the waterfront; a docks dredger skipper; a lighterman. If he can be traced in Norway, it may be that he will be found along the coast or a waterway working at a similar job or with a father with a similar job. A long way from the Philippines...