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Topic: "... just an AgLab". JUST an AgLab ?? (Read 7012 times)
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kerryb
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Keith
I agree, I started just trying to get back as far as I could, but now I want to know more about my family members, what were their lives like etc. I came to this decision because my favourite gran died when I was 25, and I thought I knew her pretty well, she lived locally and I spent a lot of my childhood with my grandparents. My brother bought the house on my grandfather's death and in the attic we found a bundle of loveletters written from my gran to my grandad in the 30's. I decided I did not know her at all.  She sounded a fascinating girl as a youngster and led an interesting life and so different from the little old lady I knew. How did she become that way?
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukSearching for my family - Baldwin - Sussex, Middlesex, Cork, Pilbeam - Sussex, Harmer - Sussex, Terry - Surrey, Kent, Rhoades - Lincs, Roffey - Surrey, Traies - Devon & Middlesex & many many more to be found on my website .... www.kerrysfamilyhistory.co.uk |
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kerryb
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Tahnks anigran
I look forward to it!!!!! 
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukSearching for my family - Baldwin - Sussex, Middlesex, Cork, Pilbeam - Sussex, Harmer - Sussex, Terry - Surrey, Kent, Rhoades - Lincs, Roffey - Surrey, Traies - Devon & Middlesex & many many more to be found on my website .... www.kerrysfamilyhistory.co.uk |
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sussexkim
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This post just endorses my plea to people to look into their family HISTORY, not just their family TREE.
Find out how your ancestors lived, how much they were paid, how many they slept to a room (often no bed), how they travelled, what they ate, what furniture they had, what their most prized posession was, how they wiped their bottom (before newspapers), how their toilets worked, what did women use, ............................the list is endless
Teddybear
I quite agree with this.
Someone once told me that looking into your ancesters is not just about the family tree, it is about putting the leaves and flowers onto the branches.
Kim
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Forever searching for NEWNHAM in Fletching/Danhill/Horsted Keynes/Cuckfield area of Sussex
Also BROWNING, WARNETT and STEPNEY
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PrueM
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Just replying to Leagen's plea early on in this thread...
Leagen, an Ag Lab is an Agricultural Labourer (but you've probably already worked that out by now!)
The term "rellie" for relative I didn't realise was used in the UK, but it's definitely used in Australia where we attempt to abbreviate everything possible - it's said that we do it so we don't have to open our mouths for as long, thus preventing flies from getting in!!! Here's an example:
"I'm gunna make sm bikkies after I 'ave me brekky, coz the rellies 'r' comin' round 'n' the hubby's chuckin' a tanty coz there's no footy on the telly till Satdee"
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Paper and Photograph Conservator
I live in NSW, and am researching:
BALFOUR (Derry) – BIGG (Kent) – BONSALL (DBY, NTT, CHS) – BRISBANE (Fife) – DANKS (STS) – DOBSON (BRK) – FRANCIS (ESS) – GOODE (HAM) – HAYNES (Cork) – INGRAM (MDX, SOM) – LANGWORTHY (Jersey, DEV) – MCKAY (Fife, Aberdeen, Banff, Moray) – MORRISH (LND) – NANCARROW (CON) – OGILVIE (Moray, LND) – STRATHDEE (LND, Banff) - SWAN (Fife)
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Emjaybee
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Yes I had hair once
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Are men born free and equal? by Robert Buchanan 1890
"in past times, treated the farmer's man as half-labourer and half-pauper"
Wessex Tales by Thomas Hardy
"Some few years ago a certain farmer was riding through this lane in the gloom of a winter evening. The farmer's friend, a dairyman, was riding beside him. A few paces in the rear rode the farmer's man"
Another reference in Shakespeare in Love refers to the farmers man or churl beating his flail on the corn.
Conclusion:
The farmer's man was the lowest rank of farm labourer who road at the rear of hs master and lived in poverty.
A churl, in its earliest Anglo-Saxon meaning, was simply "a man", but the word soon came to mean "a non-servile peasant", still spelt ceorle, and denoting the lowest rank of freemen. According to the Oxford English Dictionary it later came to mean the opposite of the nobility and royalty, "a common person". This meaning held through the 15th century, but by then the word had taken on negative overtone, meaning "a country person" and then "a low fellow". By the 19th century, a new and pejorative meaning arose, "one inclined to uncivil or loutish behaviour".
Mike
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Voyce, in Hanley Castle, Beardin Malvern, Scrivens, in Hanley Castle and N.Z.
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dawghowsca
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You wouldn't happen to have an ISBN on that book, would you?
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Sussex: Smith, Booker, Hobden, Wickens, Stubbs
Nottingham: Scattergood, Marriott, Smith
Manchester: Gibson, McLean, Allan, Sephton
Antrim: Todd, McClune, Morrison
Canada: Smith, McDonough, Maitland, Walker
Sutherlandshire: McLean, Gunn, McKenzie, Morison, McRae, Matheson
Pennsylvania: Todd
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I'm presently delving into what their work conditions etc were like on farms so this has given me a better understanding of the terms used.