Or should we say a woman’s work is never properly quantified? Putting aside the difficulty involved in differentiating (if indeed we should) between paid and unpaid work, the nineteenth century census returns are anything but consistent in their treatment of women’s occupations. However, if we take the descriptions in the census at face value, we … Continue reading A woman’s work is never done
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Jacobstow: Go west young man? Or perhaps south.
From the Isles of Scilly, we jump to the northern end of Cornwall. As befits a farming parish, all three of the Jacobstow children of 1861 who appear in the Victorian Lives database and who have been traced to at least 1891 were living on farms in 1861. Not that a farming life was the … Continue reading Jacobstow: Go west young man? Or perhaps south.