>From: "Wilf" <[email protected]> >Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 16:53:19 -0000 > >I know that FEU means ground rent in Scotland and that FEUAR had something >to do with paying the landowner not to do war service, could anyone explain >what it means when written in this context. Feu comes from feudal, and is the folding of land under a feudal "supervisor" - the payment might have been quite small but was usually made to someone whose family had been the local landowner at some period in the past. Ownership of the land, and of the feu, were not the same thing. It had nothing to do with wartime, but was, as you say, a form of land rent. The feuar was the person who had the land and had to do the paying. Under its index heading "research tools" Scottish Documents http://www.scottishdocuments.com has a collection of old scots words and a list of old occupations with definintions which you might find useful. Lesley Robertson _________________________________________________________________ Play online games with your friends with MSN Messenger http://messenger.msn.nl/