Alan Mills wrote: > My gggf Thomas Young is shown as a labourer in Horley in 1833 when he married and by 1835 he is a tenant farmer. Similarly a possible relation James Young, is shown as an Ag Lab in Charlwood in 1841 and a farmer, presumably tenant, in 1851. > > I would have thought it unlikely to make the transition from Ag Lab to tenant farmer without some cash for a deposit, equipment (horse, cart etc). I also think it unlikely an Ag Lab could save sufficient for this. If so, this would suggest some financial event occurred for them both eg marrying into some money, inheriting some or whatever. Am I right or was it much easier to make this transition than I think? Hallo I hace been told the terms labourer and ag lab are used to describe a lot of different jobs. The description is right but not accurate. Jean Hunter Kent

An ag lab could cover any number of jobs in the countryside from blacksmith to miller, so you would find several levels of social mobility within the classification and some enumerators just classed them all as ag labs, while others gave their full occupations.Patti > Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 09:18:56 +0100 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [SRY] Social mobility > > Alan Mills wrote: > > My gggf Thomas Young is shown as a labourer in Horley in 1833 when he married and by 1835 he is a tenant farmer. Similarly a possible relation James Young, is shown as an Ag Lab in Charlwood in 1841 and a farmer, presumably tenant, in 1851. > > > > I would have thought it unlikely to make the transition from Ag Lab to tenant farmer without some cash for a deposit, equipment (horse, cart etc). I also think it unlikely an Ag Lab could save sufficient for this. If so, this would suggest some financial event occurred for them both eg marrying into some money, inheriting some or whatever. Am I right or was it much easier to make this transition than I think? > > Hallo > > I hace been told the terms labourer and ag lab are used to describe a > lot of different jobs. The description is right but not accurate. > > Jean Hunter > Kent > *************************************** > Send your List messages using **PLAIN TEXT** and always **TRIM AWAY** superfluous old messages in replies. > > List Admin can be contacted at: [email protected] > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi I have an ancestor who was a servant, a couple of years later a labourer, and then he, or his wife got an inheritance, and were later brickmakers and farmers (There was a brick kiln on the farm) So it is possible Bob -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jean Hunter Sent: 25 July 2011 09:19 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [SRY] Social mobility Alan Mills wrote: > My gggf Thomas Young is shown as a labourer in Horley in 1833 when he married and by 1835 he is a tenant farmer. Similarly a possible relation James Young, is shown as an Ag Lab in Charlwood in 1841 and a farmer, presumably tenant, in 1851. >