---------- >From: Colleen Pustola <ladyaudris@earthlink.net> >To: BOWER-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [BOWER] [Fwd: BOWERS - interesting definition] >Date: Fri, Aug 3, 2001, 12:27 PM > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [BOWERS] BOWERS - interesting definition > Resent-Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 07:41:23 -0600 > Resent-From: BOWERS-L@rootsweb.com > Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 09:12:59 -0400 > From: "Phyllis Ryerse" <phyllis@webnet.com> > Reply-To: <phyllis@webnet.com> > To: BOWERS-L@rootsweb.com > > Here's one I just found on the Baden-Wurtemberg list. > > Bauer is a farmer who works on his own land, whose possession is so big, > that it > nourishes him and his family completely. There are Hof-(farm) Voll- > (full) > or > Halb- (half) -Bauern. > > In contrast there are Viertelhofbesitzer > (quarterfarmowners) and Eigenlehner, with only a small farm, who had to > lease > additional land and Häusler or Büdner, which had only a little piece of > gardenland and lived from day labour or trade. > > Phyllis in Atlanta > (still searching for more on George Washington Bowers in Marion Co., > Ohio in > 1815.) > > > > ==== BOWERS Mailing List ==== > To post messages to the Bowers discussion list, send them to > BOWERS-L@rootsweb.com > > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB > > > ==== BOWER Mailing List ==== > Please do not send messages with attachments, HTML, MIME, or any other > enhanced text to the list. RootsWeb does not allow messages with those > settings through their servers and will only return them to you. > >