ad L/s
Hi,
I wonder whether anyone can help me. A 40 year old man on the 1841 census in rural north Essex gave his occupation as "ad L/s" or "ad L/S". Can anyone hazard a guess as to what that might mean? Or better still, does someone actually know? Most of the men around were Ag Labs but it's definitely not that.
Thank you.
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Thanks for taking an interest. I can show you all the entries on the page, but I don't think that will help;
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Thanks. I agree that it does not help! What is the location in Essex? It might be worth looking at other pages in the same location. Also have you found him on the 1851 census? That might give a clue.
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I have now found him in Stambourne. I have also found what look like the entries in the 1851, 1861 and 1871 censuses on which he was an agricultural labourer. I have also found someone on Ancestry who has him on his tree so I have asked him whether he knows.
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Sorry, I didn't see your messages until now. Yes that's him in the later returns. The full page does at least prove that this isn't merely the local officer's quirky way of entering "Ag Lab", but I've not seen anything like it before though you'd think such an abbreviation would be standard or at least widely understood. At least this fellow is a doddle to track compared to his mother. If we believe the accepted 'facts' she had a child at about 48, has no baptismal record though her siblings do, and there's no sign of her husband's second marriage though he has a wife on the '51 census, with very similar DoB and PoB - not the village they lived in - as the first wife, just a bit younger to make that late birth more likely. I'm wondering whether she's the same woman, baptised, died and recorded on the census[es] as Sarah but wed and entered at her children's baptisms as Mary.
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