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    In the 1911, Elizabeth Hockley widow 72 is shown as worker, Weeding sawns.
    Looking at the original, it looks like Weeding sawns with the codes:

    140 Agricultural Labourers, Farm Servants - Not otherwise distinguished
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    566 Other Gardeners (not Domestic)

    N.B. in 1881, she was a Laborers Wife, her husband was an Ag Lab Milkman.
    This looks like a transcription typo and should be Weeding lawns. But would a widow of 72 be weeding lawns?

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    This looks like a transcription typo and should be Weeding lawns.
    It's "weeding lawns". It's the original that's important, not the transcription. In any case, Ancestry have got it right.


    But would a widow of 72 be weeding lawns?
    It depends on the state of the lawns.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter Goodey View Post
    It's "weeding lawns". It's the original that's important, not the transcription. In any case, Ancestry have got it right.
    It depends on the state of the lawns.



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    No Old Age Pension in those days. If you wanted to eat you had to work for the money to buy food.

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    Old Age Pensions began 1 January 1909, and you got the grand sum of five bob (twenty-five pence to those of a younger generation) but it wasn't granted automatically.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old-Age_Pensions_Act_1908

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    I stand corrected!

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    Thank you

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