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    1. [ABERDEEN] old occupations
    2. Mary Simpson
    3. I have a couple of the wonderful booklets from anesfhs for the 1696 Poll Tax for Old Deer & Longside, and Cruden. Wonderful stuff, but can somebody tell me what the terms: " Grassman " " Grasswoman " and " Grassfolk " would mean? There are loads of them! Would these people be cultivating grass for a fodder crop? I.e. hay? And surely this would only have been a part of the agricultural production. So why would some be given this specific designation, would they have been perhaps middlemen or agents obtaining grass / fodder for others? I have never come upon this term before. Not a wright but interesting anyway, Mary If I have asked this question before, please accept my apologies.

    01/03/2010 07:15:50