Rummins, I see you have had some replies to your message. I would like to add that during Victorian times, Urban Dairies abounded. There are several examples of former dairies in London - the buildings converted into shops and residential. Do check the Imagesof England pages under English Heritage for details on former dairy buildings, now listed. Also, check out this website link: - http://www.sustainweb.org/jelliedeel/articles/358/ One or more cows were kept by individuals to supply milk sold to neighbours etc. Mayhew's book "London Labour and London Poor" is well worth referring to. I believe it is freely available on the Internet via Project Gutenberg or www.Archive.org HTH Richard Brown On 30 January 2013 23:08, <eng-surrey-request@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > Today's Topics: > > 5. John May, Cow Keeper, Peckham Camberwell area about 1840s > (rummins) > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 03:23:53 +0800 > From: "rummins" <rummins@optusnet.com.au> > Subject: [SRY] John May, Cow Keeper, Peckham Camberwell area about > 1840s > To: <eng-surrey@rootsweb.com> > > Dear Listers, > > --- SNIP --- > > Also would anybody know if cow keepers had their own land to graze stock on > or would the cows have been grazing on common ground at this time? > > Many thanks for any background information or connections to this couple or > to any of their known 11 children born between 1818 and 1838. I have a copy > of the birth certificate, 19 August 1838, for the youngest, Annie Sophia > May > (later Mrs William Aldous and married 23 December 1865 St George Bloomsbury > Middlesex) > > Regards, > Elizabeth > > **************************************** > -- Richard Brown Bromley, Kent U.K. Member of: - E. Surrey Family History Society ) And in http://www.eastsurreyfhs.org.uk/ ) very Lincolnshire Family History Society ) good http://www.lincolnshirefhs.org.uk/ ) company.

You may also find "the Welsh in London 1500 - 2000" edited by Emrys Jones pub. University of Wales Press interesting showing the waves of Welsh immigrants into London and the amongst others, foundation of the dairies and later the haberdashery shops Philip Maddocks ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard M Brown" <richardmbrown6@gmail.com> To: "roots list surrey" <eng-surrey@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 9:09 AM Subject: Re: [SRY] John May, Cow Keeper, Peckham Camberwell area about 1840s > Rummins, > > I see you have had some replies to your message. > > I would like to add that during Victorian times, Urban Dairies abounded. > There are several examples of former dairies in London - the buildings > converted into shops and residential. Do check the Imagesof England pages > under English Heritage for details on former dairy buildings, now listed. > > Also, check out this website link: - > http://www.sustainweb.org/jelliedeel/articles/358/ > > One or more cows were kept by individuals to supply milk sold to > neighbours > etc. > > Mayhew's book "London Labour and London Poor" is well worth referring to. > I believe it is freely available on the Internet via Project Gutenberg or > www.Archive.org > > HTH > > Richard Brown > > > On 30 January 2013 23:08, <eng-surrey-request@rootsweb.com> wrote: > >> >> Today's Topics: >> >> 5. John May, Cow Keeper, Peckham Camberwell area about 1840s >> (rummins) >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 5 >> Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 03:23:53 +0800 >> From: "rummins" <rummins@optusnet.com.au> >> Subject: [SRY] John May, Cow Keeper, Peckham Camberwell area about >> 1840s >> To: <eng-surrey@rootsweb.com> >> >> Dear Listers, >> >> --- SNIP --- >> >> Also would anybody know if cow keepers had their own land to graze stock >> on >> or would the cows have been grazing on common ground at this time? >> >> Many thanks for any background information or connections to this couple >> or >> to any of their known 11 children born between 1818 and 1838. I have a >> copy >> of the birth certificate, 19 August 1838, for the youngest, Annie Sophia >> May >> (later Mrs William Aldous and married 23 December 1865 St George >> Bloomsbury >> Middlesex) >> >> Regards, >> Elizabeth >> >> **************************************** >> > > > -- > Richard Brown > Bromley, Kent > U.K. > Member of: - > E. Surrey Family History Society ) And in > http://www.eastsurreyfhs.org.uk/ ) very > Lincolnshire Family History Society ) good > http://www.lincolnshirefhs.org.uk/ ) company. > . > *************************************** > Send your List messages using **PLAIN TEXT** and always **TRIM AWAY** > superfluous old messages in replies. > > List Admin can be contacted at: Eng-Surrey-admin@rootsweb.com > . > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-SURREY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >