Can anyone read this from 1841 please?

[Hackstaple]

A.S. - agricultural servant [later ag.lab] as opposed to a domestic servant. This in the senses of one who gives service. For example early railway employees such as porters and railway police and clerks were all referred to as Railway Servants.

[01debbie]

Hi Hackstaple,

Ok, I understand but what would the difference be from an ag lab?  There are ag labs on the same page. 

Debbie

[Lydart]

Just a suggestion ... would an ag. servant be the guy who cracked the whip and kept the ag.lab's working at stone picking, scything, or whatever they were doing ?  An overseer

[JillJ]

My guess would be that an Agricultural Servant worked on the farm in some capacity other than labouring, i.e. Dairymaid, Cowman, Shepherd...could be wrong though!

Jill

[Pels.]

My guess would be that an Agricultural Servant worked on the farm in some capacity other than labouring, i.e. Dairymaid, Cowman, Shepherd...could be wrong though!

Jill

Could it be possible that in some cases the agricultural servants lived in with the family, where as the labourers stayed in a tied cottage elsewhere?

Pels

[mangomania]

They're definitely M.S.'s not A.S.'s (compare it with the M in Mary and the A in Ag lab below on the original)

Ian