1841 Census in Roughlee
Posted: 22 Jan 2021, 13:54
After nine years I am still editing my book about the three Pickles brothers from Barnoldswick, who left Roughlee in the mid 19th century to travel with portable theatres. Will I ever get it finished?
I have struggled to decipher the occupation of my ggg grandfather, Richard Pickles, who lived in Roughlee at the time of the 1841 census. It looks as though it was abbreviated to AS. In that census FS and MS were abbreviations for male and female servants and I now think that the enumerator took it upon himself to add a new abbreviation which stood for agricultural servant. There were only two of them in Roughlee and they were both heads of their households (the other was John Sutcliffe). I've had a good root around the internet and found out that it was a term which disappeared around the beginning of the 19th century and was sometimes applied to agricultural workers who lived in a house, or cottage , on a farm. I've no idea if I'm right or wrong. Has anyone else come across this?
I have struggled to decipher the occupation of my ggg grandfather, Richard Pickles, who lived in Roughlee at the time of the 1841 census. It looks as though it was abbreviated to AS. In that census FS and MS were abbreviations for male and female servants and I now think that the enumerator took it upon himself to add a new abbreviation which stood for agricultural servant. There were only two of them in Roughlee and they were both heads of their households (the other was John Sutcliffe). I've had a good root around the internet and found out that it was a term which disappeared around the beginning of the 19th century and was sometimes applied to agricultural workers who lived in a house, or cottage , on a farm. I've no idea if I'm right or wrong. Has anyone else come across this?
