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The Common Room / Re: Help with researching the history of agricultural labourers/servants
« on: Saturday 23 August 08 18:20 BST (UK) »
Hi, I've found your thread so insteresting.
My 3 x G Grandmother was widowed twice. She then took up farming, with no live in laborers or servants. In the last two census she had increased her acres of land and was farming 20 acres at the age of 77. She died 9 years later, so I'm unsure how long she continued to farm.
I suspect that it was a tied farm. I have been to see the farm and it is now a an out building used for storage, linked to a much a bigger newer farm but you can tell it was once a very small old farm house.
I've found very little on the net about independent women farmers.
Good luck with your search.
Fiona
My 3 x G Grandmother was widowed twice. She then took up farming, with no live in laborers or servants. In the last two census she had increased her acres of land and was farming 20 acres at the age of 77. She died 9 years later, so I'm unsure how long she continued to farm.
I suspect that it was a tied farm. I have been to see the farm and it is now a an out building used for storage, linked to a much a bigger newer farm but you can tell it was once a very small old farm house.
I've found very little on the net about independent women farmers.
Good luck with your search.
Fiona
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