> Could some one please tell me what what exactly it means > when someone is a tenant in westertown in Craig. Is this > passed on to the next generation? A tenant did not own the land or buildings. He paid rent to a landowner. Whether or not the tenancy was passed on to the next generation depended on the tenancy agreement. In many cases a tenant farmer would have been succeeded by a son, but there is no guarantee. Westertown is the name of the farm, presumably in the parish of Craig. HTH Anne