Thanks John, I would appreciate a copy as this sounds very interesting. Cheers Chris On 9 May 2016 at 20:51, John Keynes via <aus-sagen@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Listers, > > British Historian and Author Mark Baker wrote an article concentrating on > the lot of the 'ag lab' in Wiltshire in the 1840s-50s. He named it: > > Wiltshire Ag Labs c1850 > > I have made a copy of his article as a .pdf file and can send it as an > attachment to email to interested Listers. > > A passage from his article: > > '.... at the end of the meal the children are always asking for more at > every meal; I then say, "You don't want your father to go to prison, do > you?"' Many of course did go to prison. The magistrates, who included most > of the landowners and some of the parsons, knew only too well the numerous > cases of sheep-stealing, corn-stealing and other kinds of stealing to get > food, quite apart from poaching. The more enlightened landowners looked > round anxiously for remedies; the most obvious seemed to be emigration." > > John Keynes, Salisbury Heights, S.A. > > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus > signature database 13459 (20160509) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.com > > AUS-SAGEN Archives are here: > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/AUS-SAGEN/ > > Websites of Interest on our Blog: > http://aus-sagen-genealogy-websites.blogspot.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-SAGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Chris Wright http://www.chriswright.id.au https://sites.google.com/site/wrightholidays/ http://coolgarra-trips.blogspot.com/

Thank you John for your kind offer - I would really appreciate a copy as I have tried to get some understanding of the conditions our ancestors left behind. Paul Parker, Auckland floorplanz@xtra.co.nz -----Original Message----- From: aus-sagen-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:aus-sagen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Chris Wright via Sent: Tuesday, 10 May 2016 5:44 a.m. To: John Keynes; aus-sagen@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [AUS-SAGEN] ag labs Thanks John, I would appreciate a copy as this sounds very interesting. Cheers Chris On 9 May 2016 at 20:51, John Keynes via <aus-sagen@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Listers, > > British Historian and Author Mark Baker wrote an article concentrating > on the lot of the 'ag lab' in Wiltshire in the 1840s-50s. He named it: > > Wiltshire Ag Labs c1850 > > I have made a copy of his article as a .pdf file and can send it as an > attachment to email to interested Listers. > > A passage from his article: > > '.... at the end of the meal the children are always asking for more > at every meal; I then say, "You don't want your father to go to > prison, do you?"' Many of course did go to prison. The magistrates, > who included most of the landowners and some of the parsons, knew only > too well the numerous cases of sheep-stealing, corn-stealing and other > kinds of stealing to get food, quite apart from poaching. The more > enlightened landowners looked round anxiously for remedies; the most obvious seemed to be emigration." > > John Keynes, Salisbury Heights, S.A. > > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus > signature database 13459 (20160509) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.com > > AUS-SAGEN Archives are here: > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/AUS-SAGEN/ > > Websites of Interest on our Blog: > http://aus-sagen-genealogy-websites.blogspot.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-SAGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Chris Wright http://www.chriswright.id.au https://sites.google.com/site/wrightholidays/ http://coolgarra-trips.blogspot.com/ AUS-SAGEN Archives are here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/AUS-SAGEN/ Websites of Interest on our Blog: http://aus-sagen-genealogy-websites.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-SAGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message