Thanks should be given to a Mr. Vaughan. He has not yet let me know if he wishes to be named in person. He paid almost £100 for this. Unfortunately I have found such remnants of Montgomery are lacking compared to other counties. Thanks for the break down on the works, I think you are right. ---- It seems most of the people listed are labourers and only people in and around Alberbury. On 03/12/12 19:27, John Ball wrote: > David Hopkins wrote: > A fellow researcher recently acquired a document, a private census that > contains detail that is usually not recorded - particularly for labourers. > Would be interested to hear if these are relevant to anyone. Even without a > personal connection it still makes fascinating reading. > I'm having problems deciphering some of the information. Does anyone have > any idea what 'carden no land' '1/w mouth C.C.' means? > =========== > > Dear David, > > What a terrific find! If I found one of my ancestors was listed I'd be > overjoyed. Thank you for making these available to us. > > I think 'carden no land' is 'Garden, no land'; i.e. the person has a garden > but no other land. See the bottom of column 3 on page 1. There are > references elsewhere to 'garden good'. > > '1/w mouth C.C.' I think is a reference to an amount (1/-) paid per (pr) > month to some kind of club. The writer uses B.C. as the abbreviation for > Benefit Club, so I'd suggest C.C. refers to something similar. Other > payments are sometimes expressed as '1/pr week'. > > Kind regards, > > > John > -------------------- > John Ball, Brecon, Mid-Wales, UK > E-mail: john@jlb2011.co.uk > Personal Homepage: http://www.jlb2011.co.uk > Images of Wales: http://www.jlb2011.co.uk/walespic/ > Welsh Family History Archive: http://www.jlb2011.co.uk/wales/ > > Joint Webmaster, Breconshire Local & Family History Society > http://www.blfhs.co.uk/ > GENUKI Breconshire Maintainer: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/BRE/ > Administrator - Powys (& BRE/MGY/RAD) RootsWeb mailing lists > > =================== > Visit the Powys Mailing List webpage at: www.jlb2011.co.uk/powyslist.htm > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to POWYS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >