If I may, uninvited, "put my oar into the water" here, I suspect Liz spotted the same thing I did. It is rather interesting to note that the agricultural wages declined from 3 pounds a year to 10 pounds a year. Shouldn't that be the other way around? Or did I have too much to eat and drink over the Christmas season? Helen -----Original Message----- From: eng-westmorland-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:eng-westmorland-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Barb Baker Sent: December 20, 2008 3:11 PM To: eng-westmorland@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ENG-WESTMORLAND] THE NEWCASTLE COURANT, FRIDAY, JUNE 4,1880 / WAGES How So ?, Liz. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Liz Owen" <l.owen@free.fr> To: <eng-westmorland@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 12:23 PM Subject: Re: [ENG-WESTMORLAND] THE NEWCASTLE COURANT, FRIDAY, JUNE 4,1880 / WAGES Shomething wrong shurely? Liz ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barb Baker" <bbaker48@sympatico.ca> To: "Genealogy-Cumberland" <Genealogy-Cumberland@googlegroups.com>; <lancsgen@rootsweb.com>; <uk-newspaper-extracts@rootsweb.com>; <eng-westmorland@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 5:46 PM Subject: [ENG-WESTMORLAND] THE NEWCASTLE COURANT, FRIDAY, JUNE 4,1880 / WAGES During the past five or six years of agricultural depression, the wages of agricultural servants in the northern counties of England ... Lancashire, Westmorland, and Cumberland ... have decreased from £3 to £10 per annum, and they are still on the decline. ______________________________________________________ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-WESTMORLAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-WESTMORLAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-WESTMORLAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

>From doing transcriptions of newspaper articles for a while now, I rather think that it is a matter of "terminology" in this case; a matter of how it would be said in 1880. Probably it would mean "agricultural wages declined 'between' 3 pounds a year 'and' 10 pounds a year. Other people on other mail lists have asked the same question, so no, you didn't eat or drink too much at all !! : |) Barb.