General Chat

It was kind of traditional that somebody who had a bit of land he farmed might rent an acre or two in the area to work as well.

There were two brothers who did this together along with the daughter of one of them. You would see them working a bit of land here and there, often in the distance a couple of fields away or rattling round the place in their old lorry.

The brothers have died and the daughter is selling all those bits of land that they didn't rent after all. Their homes are not going and it looks like she is keeping the land where they run their dairy herd in another village.

As it is, those two, very average blokes getting by on the land had accrued 12o odd acres of arable worth a good million and a half! That is just in this village.I don't know what they own in the village where the cows live!

If their land was all together it would be a pretty substantial farm.

Now they were canny ag labs!I

Lizxx

Just had another look. I missed a bit.

There is about 2 million pounds worth in this village.

Crikey!
Must look up my Suffolk lot.
GG grandad had a Smallholding in Middleton for years.
He grew veg and sold them locally. It was probably fairly big, as he was fined for keeping his children off school to harvest his veg.
He then expanded to buying a Grocery shop in Aldeburgh - where he was killed, aged 90, when his shop was hit by a bomb from a German plane heading back to Germany

'For all our sakes, let us dwell on those victories, rejoice in the successes and, where possible, reach for the larger hope'. (C&P from an article in The Times on Monday 26th October.)

And I bet they scrimped and saved their money too. And no doubt they enjoyed their lives hard as they were.

One of my direct ancestors was an early believer in equality. He did not leave his farm to the eldest son but to be divided equally between his four children (including the girls). I am ever so proud of that fact.

Since his son left a lot of land I believe his siblings must have sold him their shares. Alas, my gran did not benefit as she was not at all wealthy so I think a good time must have been had by all!

At a get-together a few years ago, two farmers were aghast when I spoke about this. I did not know whether to laugh or cry but pity help their younger children cos they were determined to keep their farms in the family.

In Cornwall, in early times, it was usual to divide family fortunes amongst all family members. However, anything a girl got, immediately went to her husband when she married. My ancestors had lots of girls :-(
The Killigrew monument in Falmouth was built in 1737 by Martin Lister Killigrew.
Martin Lister took the Killigrew name when he married Anne Killigrew, as she was last in the line of this (also my) branch of the Killigrew family. They hoped to have children, and continue the name.
Unfortunately, they had no children, so the line died.
Anne's g x 4 grandfather, was one of my g x loads grandfathers.

Houses in Chelsea are beginning to collapse.

Prices Dermot?

JoyLouise - Buildings - not prices.

:-0

What's happening?

Just read about it online, Dermot.

Loved the comment that 'it was not our fault.'