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Female Ag Labs?
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Unknown | Report | 6 Mar 2005 00:12 |
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That's one death cert on the 'Must Get' list! |
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Unknown | Report | 6 Mar 2005 00:11 |
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you never know lou, I'm sure he died a happy man LOL |
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Unknown | Report | 6 Mar 2005 00:10 |
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I haven't had a drink since September 2003 (I kid you not!) and even in my sober state am now convinced that my dressmaking 3 x grandmother was a hooker! She was widowed at 31, had a child exactly 9 months after her husband's death (hmmm!) and never remarried. She just had lots of 'boarders' and moved house a lot. Oh no...just had a thought, wonder if husband George died on the job! |
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Unknown | Report | 6 Mar 2005 00:03 |
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I have a female relly who was a brick maker labourer in 1851, Im nearly drunk..... |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 6 Mar 2005 00:00 |
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Excuse me!! I was an ag lab for 2 years until I got pregnant!!! (I'm not drunk, merely tipsy!) then the constant trips to the 'edge of the field' for a pee - this was Essex - no hedges to hide behind) became an embarrasment!! lol Women who lived in the country and not in service were usually agl abs until they had children, then ag labs after the menopause LOL It's just the luck of the draw if you find them on the census! If they were 10 and a scholar on the 1871 census, by the time the 1881 census came along they were probably having children and classed as ag lab's wife. What an amenable ancestor you had!! lol maggie |
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Unknown | Report | 5 Mar 2005 23:49 |
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Hi Debby Lucky you (being drunk, I mean, not your first female ag lab, although that's pretty good too!). I never really thought about women having jobs like that until I watched that 'Lost World of Mitchell & Kenyon' and they showed the women that worked on the pits and actually wore trousers which was frowned upon back then! Most of my female rellies who have an occupation at all are needlewomen or dressmakers which I always thought was very sweet and sedate till someone pointed out that dressmaker could actually be code for prostitute! Lou |
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KathleenBell | Report | 5 Mar 2005 23:48 |
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There were lots of female agricultural labourers, some in their 60's and 70's. They were made of sterner stuff than these days!!! Kath. x |
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Debby | Report | 5 Mar 2005 23:42 |
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I've just come across my first female ag lab - thought I was mistaken but on 1871 & 1881 she's down as one - and she's aged 55 and 65 at the time! Normally says ag labs wife if anything at all against my married rellies. And with this same family I found the chap living with his wife and mother in law on one census getting the maiden name of his wife. On the next one he was living next door to his sister and brother in law so I found out his sisters married name. Then on the next one, he's living next door to his sister and her 2 grandchildren giving me his nieces married name and her children - what a star! Hope you're following me - I'm drunk! LOL Debby |
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