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Offline MarkyP

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1643 Inventory
« on: Monday 02 January 17 11:47 GMT (UK) »
Just a quick question about a term in an Inventory to a 1643 Will. One of the rooms mentioned is referred to as The Folks Loft and I hoping that someone might have come across this term before. I guess it could just be the literal meaning and be the parents room, or guest room for other 'folks'. Google hasn't been much help!
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Re: 1643 Inventory
« Reply #1 on: Monday 02 January 17 13:36 GMT (UK) »
According to both the Oxford English Dictionary (full version, available online with library card) and Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary (http://www.rootschat.com/links/01j6q/), folk(s) could refer to servants or the workforce on a farm.

The OED's earliest reference with the meaning of parents or family is from 1715, so I would think that what you have here may well refer to a servants' loft or similar.

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Re: 1643 Inventory
« Reply #2 on: Monday 02 January 17 14:00 GMT (UK) »
That's brilliant, thanks Arthur.  :)
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