Tom
I am a FH squatter
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http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/Prestwich/Prestwich1881.html
heh, I've always liked history, and I've been researching the history of my area using various sources (www.old-maps.co.uk, http://www.1901census.nationalarchives.gov.uk/, google etc). I came across the above page, and couldn't help noticing the handicap column.
Seems if you weren't educated then, you got labelled as such. I wonder what labels they'd use these days? Chav? Loser? Dole-king? Drunkard?
heh
BTW - I have some credit left on my session with the 1901 census - I have enough left for one place/name search. The first person in the UK to give me an address, or a name and a place that I can use in the census search engine, will receive via email a nice pdf of the census results of their house at that time. Obviously that info will need to be in a PM. For an example of what kind of results you can get, clicky here:pdf file of census near my house
Obviously your house will have had to have been there in 1901. :E
heh, I've always liked history, and I've been researching the history of my area using various sources (www.old-maps.co.uk, http://www.1901census.nationalarchives.gov.uk/, google etc). I came across the above page, and couldn't help noticing the handicap column.
Seems if you weren't educated then, you got labelled as such. I wonder what labels they'd use these days? Chav? Loser? Dole-king? Drunkard?
heh
BTW - I have some credit left on my session with the 1901 census - I have enough left for one place/name search. The first person in the UK to give me an address, or a name and a place that I can use in the census search engine, will receive via email a nice pdf of the census results of their house at that time. Obviously that info will need to be in a PM. For an example of what kind of results you can get, clicky here:pdf file of census near my house
Obviously your house will have had to have been there in 1901. :E
