Thanks again Heather, This would be my expectation too except my real interest or concern is about the people doing the work right in the soil (as it were). I guess someone who grew only hops (if that happened, I don't know) just did the sensible thing with their cash. Australian woolgrowers manage between annual wool clips. cheers, David On 31/05/2008, at 11:03 AM, Heather & Chris Lord wrote: > Hi David > > I think the answer to your query would be "Farmer" or "Hop Grower". > > If someone was growing hops, they would have owned (or rented?) the > land the > hops were grown on, so wouldn't be "ag labs". > > Farmers probably had other crops or animals as well as hops, so hop > growing > would only be a small part of what they did - unless they only grew > hops, > which I would think would be fairly unlikely. If the crops were only > harvested once a year, what would they have lived on for the rest of > the > year? > > Regards > Heather > > -----Original Message----- > From: eng-hereford-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:eng-hereford-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of David Daniell > Sent: 29 May 2008 20:18 > To: Herefordshire Rootsweb > Subject: [HEF] Hops > > > Can anyone tell me the correct description in the old censuses of > people whose main occupation was growing hops? > Or was this perforce a seasonal occupation? > (so at census time they would not have been doing that?) > Would they have been classes as ag-labs or would it have required > enough skill to be regarded as a separate 'trade'? > > I notice in a recent message someone is described as a hop-planter. > Might > this have been someone who owned a plantation as distinct from > an employee who planted them and trained them onto sticks etc? > > Thanks for any advice, > David > > "14th October 1793, Sun Newspaper, London > A few days since, at St. John's Worcester, Mr ROLLASON, Printer & > Bookseller, Coventry, married to Miss OVEN, daughter of the late Mr > James > OVEN, Hop-planter and Grazier, Dilwyn Herefordshire > Diane J." > ---- ENG-HEREFORD Mailing List ---- > A genealogy and local history list covering the County of Hereford > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-HEREFORD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ---- ENG-HEREFORD Mailing List ---- > A genealogy and local history list covering the County of Hereford > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-HEREFORD-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message