Daily AncestorCoachman
A coachman drove a coach or carriage, usually as a private servant who also ran the family's stable, horses and carriages.
A private coachman reported directly to his employer and was in charge of the stables, the horses, the carriages and the stable staff. In a modest household he also did the work of groom or stablehand, and a footman often rode along to handle anything that would take the coachman away from his horses.
Other names for the job were coachee, whip and hackman, though hackman usually meant a driver of a cab for hire.
As seen in a recordOccupation column of the 1850 to 1920 census
Jas. Lyons, 40, Coachman
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