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Offline dbree

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Old Occupations
« on: Tuesday 29 July 14 01:43 BST (UK) »
Hi,

I was recently looking for an old occupation and came across this,

Seeker of the Dead ....During the plague, old women were employed to diagnose the plague from the buboes and count the dead to enable compilation of Bills of Mortality, for which they were
paid from 3 to 4 pence per corpse. :o :P

http://rmhh.co.uk/occup/s.html

My question is.... what did old men do. ???

Cheers
DB

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Re: Old Occupations
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 29 July 14 02:06 BST (UK) »
Quote from: dbreeze1 on Tuesday 29 July 14 01:43 BST (UK)


My question is.... what did old men do. ???

Cheers
DB

Bury the bodies the old women found?  ;D
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Re: Old Occupations
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 29 July 14 10:02 BST (UK) »
The old men were the bodies the old women were finding and counting  :)
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Re: Old Occupations
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 29 July 14 13:54 BST (UK) »
 ;D ;D ;D ;D

Thinking about it, sadly, 3 to 4 pence would end up being a tidy sum.

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DB

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Re: Old Occupations
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 30 July 14 20:14 BST (UK) »
It would need to be as the corpses were highly infectious.
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Broad, Eplett & Pope in St Ervan/St Columb Major, Cornwall
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Emms, Mealing & Purvey in Cotswolds, Gloucestershire
Barnes, Dunt, Gray, Massingham in Norfolk
Higho in London
Matthews & Nash in Whichford, Warwickshire
Smoothy, Willsher in Coggeshall & Chelmsford, Essex

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Re: Old Occupations
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 31 July 14 22:29 BST (UK) »
Maybe they didn't live long enough to spend it!
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« Reply #6 on: Thursday 31 July 14 22:40 BST (UK) »
Or to collect it
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  WILSON;-Wiltshire.
 SOUL;-Gloucestershire.
 SANSUM;-Berkshire-Wiltshire
 BASSON-BASTON;- Berkshire,- Oxfordshire.
 BRIDGES;- Wiltshire.
 DOWDESWELL;-Wiltshire,Gloucestershire
 JORDAN;- Berkshire.
 COX;- Berkshire.
 GOUDY;- Suffolk.
 CHATFIELD;-Sussex-- London
 MORGAN;-Blaenavon-Abersychan
 FISHER;- Berkshire.
 BLOMFIELD-BLOOMFIELD-BLUMFIELD;-Suffolk.
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