During my brief sojourn on the edge of the Yorkshire moors, as a 'farmer's' wife, we had two semi detached, two-storied. three bedroomed HINDS cottages included in the holdings of the farm. The farm was arable, and we bred cows, pigs and sheep for breeding stock. HIND was a general term for farm worker. When my husband died, the senior HIND took on the job of foreman until other arrangements could be made. Such are the changes of TIME! My grandfather, in Northumberland during the last period of the 1900's, had a horse and cart---used for carting coal--- and was, in some instances was referred to as a "carter" . Veronica THORNTON/BLAIR/Hagin On Mar 9, 2010, at 10:39 PM, gen listlass wrote: > > I have a photo of my 2xg grandfathers farm at Crawcrook Co DUR. My > grandmother who stayed there often as a child described the single > storey annex on the side of the main farmhouse as "the hinds cottage" > > > On all the census, the unrelated men are described as "servant". On > one census "carter" was added and on another described as > "agricultural servant". > Usually there was more than one male servant at a time, so I presume > they shared the "hinds cottage". > There was always more than one female servant on the various census, > so i expect they were housed in the main farmhouse, out of the way > of the male servants. (This was a very religious household!) > So on that farm at least no mention was made of the male servants > (hinds) duties except as "carter". It was an arable farm > _________________________________________________________________ > Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? Tell us now > http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/195013117/direct/01/ > > > The NORTHUMBRIA FAQ page is located at http://www.bpears.org.uk/NorthumbriaFAQ/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORTHUMBRIA-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message