Indeed - as far as I know, in the late 18th and early 19th century, a single gentleman could live quite comfortably for a year on £100. Joss -----Original Message----- From: Michele Le Resche [mailto:michele.leresche@btinternet.com] Sent: 10 November 2006 09:49 To: eng-warks-birmingham@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [B'ham] money conversion from 1890 Wow!! So a hundred years previous to that it would have been worth more. In 1796 my great X4 uncle married by license costing him £500. So even based on the 1890 figures and taking just the retail price index, that was £36,655.10p. Michele On 10 Nov 2006, at 00:14, Keith Houghton wrote: Hi Ken, According to measuringworth.com, which has taken over the EHnet "How Much Is that?" website, and uses five different ways of making the calculation, In 2005, £10 0s 0d from 1890 was worth: £733.11 using the retail price index £953.36 using the GDP deflator £4,396.69 using average earnings £5,286.14 using per capita GDP £8,491.34 using the GDP Hope this helps, Keith Houghton North Richmond, Sydney, Oz. -----Original Message----- From: Ken Poole [mailto:kpoole01@rochester.rr.com] Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 8:22 AM To: eng-warks-birmingham@rootsweb.com Subject: [B'ham] money conversion from 1890 Hello all knowing listers What would 10 pounds be worth today in England. Would that sum be big sum for the service class of people. Thanks Ken Kenton Poole Poole's Creative Concepts 34 Dungan Street Canandaigua, NY 14424 585 486 1248 fax 585 905 0160 p Kpoole01@rochester.rr.com _____________________________________________ Tracing Ancestors in Birmingham: http://www.bham.de/ Any problems, please contact the List Admin: ENG-WARKS-BIRMINGHAM- admin@rootsweb.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-WARKS- BIRMINGHAM-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________