Hi Karen, Can I refer you to the following link. It is to a book I transcribed for the Genuki website. It covers life in the East Riding at about the time you mentioned, and yes, the weather was bad at the time. http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/Books/BritishWorkman/index.html Regards, Graham >From: "Karen Leigh Doolan" <paradiselandscaping@bigpond.com> >To: ENG-EAST-YORKS-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [ERY] Re: Farming in 1840- 50's >Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 13:25:05 +1000 > >Hi All, > >Wondering if anyone knows what farming was like - ie was there a down turn >in farming caused by weather or economy or something else in Yorkshire in >1840/50's. > >Regards, >Karen >Qld >Australia > > >==== ENG-EAST-YORKS Mailing List ==== >LOST? please use the "Where is it in Yorkshire?" index >http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/Where/index.html >The Maintainer of the Genuki Yorkshire pages is Colin Hinson > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, >go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus