If you've ever wondered who much an agricultural labourer earned in the 1790s, visit my other blog at http://walkingineternity.blogspot.com/2011/06/balancing-books.html to see the income and expenditure of a labourer from Auchterarder with a wife and seven children in the 1790s. The costs of items and ages varied across the country of course, but find out how to check out your area of interest in the post!
Chris
The Scottish GENES Blog (GEnealogy News and EventS): Top news stories and features concerning ancestral research in Scotland, Ireland, the rest of the UK, and their diasporas, from genealogist and family historian Chris Paton. Feel free to quote from this blog, but please credit Scottish GENES if you do. I'm on Mastodon @scottishgenes and Threads @scottishgenesblog - to contact me please email chrismpaton @ outlook.com. Cuimhnich air na daoine o'n d'thà inig thu!
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