William INCKLE - the farmer

[Pels.]

This lot should give you something to go on .. Ellen and Charlotte's parents in 1851:

1851 census:
HO107/2105, Folio 98, Page 30

Lincolnshire, Fiskerton

Henry Peacock, h. mar, 48, Wood Dealer, Yorks, Hull
Ellen, wife, mar, 35, b. Lincs, Newball
John, son, unm, 17, Fathers Assistant, Lincs, Fiskerton
Mary Ann, dau, unm, 23, Dress Maker, b. Lincs, Fiskerton
Joseph Cutts, serv, unm, 20, General Servant, b. Lincs, Eagle
   

[heywood]

Oops - I think I had Henry as a Wool dealer! Well there was a shepherd living nearby 

[heywood]

Charles (William's son) is a labourer on the railway in 1901 - lots of children - wonder who got the farm eventually?

[Pels.]

Ellen was a widow in 1881 .. !  

Death, Jun qtr, 1879
Henry Peacock, age   77   
Lincoln, Vol, 7a, page 345

Oops - I think I had Henry as a Wool dealer! Well there was a shepherd living nearby  

I'd better go and double check .. !     

[Filiem]

Wood...wool...all the same  

I wonder how the Lincs PEACOCKs and the Northants INKLEs met?

It seems stranger and stranger to me...a Wood Dealer? Would he own some land and sell the trees on?

Thanks again  

ADDED - yes, I wonder where the farm went?

[Pels.]

In my experience the majority of people who farmed land in the 1800's didn't actually own the land or the house .. this was usually owned by an estate in the area.

We live in a rural area and most of the houses and all the nearby farms during that time, were owned by a member of the landed gentry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landed_gentry

[Filiem]

Thank you Pels for the Wiki link, very interesting...

Still that old family history problem, more questions than answers, I can see William renting out a farm but he would need some money behind him...I wonder where that came from?

[heywood]

I've been trying to find the farm but no luck. Present day Fiskerton Fen is in the area of South Ferry Rd- seems to be the only site I can find mention of South rather than Ferry Rd so the land may not have been that brilliant for farming- have to confess I know nothing about the land though 

[Filiem]

Thank you again 

We need a farming expert, methinks!