On 03/12/12 19:38, David Railton wrote: > That looks interesting? Was this all of Shropshire and Montgomeryshire or > particular parts? When was this census taken? It appears to be a census of a landowner's houses for labourers and other people low on the socio-economic scale. I haven't researched the scope, but it appears to be 67 families in the vicinity of Alberbury parish. However some places are in Cardeston, Shropshire and some in Buttington. I have not checked all places though. > David > > -----Original Message----- > From: powys-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:powys-bounces@rootsweb.com] On > Behalf Of John Ball > Sent: 03 December 2012 19:28 > To: powys@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [POWYS] Shropshire-Montgomeryshire Private Census > > 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 > > =================== > 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 >