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Offline Trishanne

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Did he get a bargain?
« on: Wednesday 12 April 17 15:28 BST (UK) »
I found this in some Lancaster records from 1804.
Looking at a comparison site 4s 9d in 1792 is now worth £26.13. I reckon he got a real bargain.
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Re: Did he get a bargain?
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 12 April 17 15:35 BST (UK) »
He certainly did get a bargain but she must have been desperate poor woman. I wonder who sold her though?

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Re: Did he get a bargain?
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 12 April 17 15:40 BST (UK) »
"I wonder who sold her though?"

I expect it was her husband! Have you read the Mayor Of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy?

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Re: Did he get a bargain?
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 12 April 17 15:46 BST (UK) »
See http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=459319.msg3207110#msg3207110 about wife sales.
Regarding "Selling Wives" apparently there were cases in Leeds in 1926 and Blackwood (Mon) in 1928.
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Re: Did he get a bargain?
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 12 April 17 15:52 BST (UK) »
I am wondering if he bought her at a hiring fair as a servant. They were together for 12 years before they got married.
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Re: Did he get a bargain?
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 12 April 17 15:57 BST (UK) »
Wife sales were often conducted on market days and the sale recorded in the auctioneer's accounts, occasionally parish officers acted as auctioneers.
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Re: Did he get a bargain?
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 13 April 17 17:35 BST (UK) »
Thank goodness we've moved on from there! Perhaps that sort of thing was where the tradition of the bride's father "giving her away" to her new husband came from?
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Re: Did he get a bargain?
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 16 April 17 16:49 BST (UK) »
... Perhaps that sort of thing was where the tradition of the bride's father "giving her away" to her new husband came from?

I don't think so.  The marriage 'give-away' is just handing over responsibility for maintenance to another (usually younger) man.

Many years ago I attended a French wedding, of the third daughter of a contemporary of mine.  A tradition there is that when a father marries off his last daughter, he puts a top hat on a special bonfire.  Nice idea.
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Re: Did he get a bargain?
« Reply #8 on: Monday 17 April 17 16:37 BST (UK) »
I like that idea! So would my father - never a hat fan! That bonfire would've been ready burning for his, as his one and only daughter was still on her way to the reception! - if, of course, he'd worn a hat in the first place..... which he didn't.....
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