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From: "Rick Parsons" <>
Subject: RE: [CON] Occupations
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 18:34:07 +0100
In-Reply-To: <000201c1052e$976fb700$d4a004cb@h1n8e8>


As a rule of thumb - A farmer dealt with crops and a husbandman, livestock.
But farmer was often used generically and where both were involved (as was
quite common).

A farmer should be of higher status than an Ag. Lab - the latter worked for
wages, the former sold his goods. A Yeoman or Yeoman Farmer was one stage up
the scale again.

None of them owned land, they had leases - often on three lives in Cornwall.
This was a system where you named three people when you bought the lease and
it lasted until the last of those three people died. The trick was to get
young but sturdy names on there to make it last as long as possible. Often
the landowner would allow one of the names to be replaced for a further fee.

Cheers,
Rick Parsons

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-----Original Message-----
From: Eddie & Kay Cavanagh [mailto:]
Sent: 04 July 2001 10:26
To:
Subject: [CON] Occupations


Hi List

This may sound stupid so please excuse me, I have ancestors that are at
different times, agricultural labourer, husbandman, farmer then back to
agricultural labourer or husbandman. I know that farmer is usually someone
further up the social scale and either owning or renting a farm. What is
the difference between agricultural labourer and husbandman? Could farmer
possibly mean that he was stating himself as something that he wasn't?

Kay from a cool Sunbury, Melbourne especially the nights and mornings.


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