His father was an unskilled labourer and his mother a nurse. They illustrate the life of an everyman&colon; farmer, labourer, fisherman, etc. His father was a farm labourer and his mother a cook. His father was a labourer and sheep shearer. A farmworker is a hired agricultural labourer. Michael Robert Ryan was an unemployed labourer and antiques dealer. A good straw weaver could make as much as a field labourer. Frank Dunne is an unemployed ex-railway labourer who has run out of money. During summers there, he worked as a farm labourer. She grew up in Tower Hamlets where her father was a manual labourer. His great grandfather was a Scottish labourer. Davitt began working at the age of nine as a labourer in a cotton mill. John Setka was born to a Croatian labourer Bob Setka. She inherited a love of reading from her father, Joseph Burford, a dock labourer. He went through various jobs, including being a building labourer and a trainee reporter.