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
and
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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09-04-2018, 6:55 AM #1toggleGuest
Weeding Sawns
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09-04-2018, 8:03 AM #2
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This looks like a transcription typo and should be Weeding lawns.
But would a widow of 72 be weeding lawns?
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09-04-2018, 8:25 AM #3
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09-04-2018, 8:44 AM #4
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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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09-04-2018, 9:00 AM #5
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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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09-04-2018, 9:34 AM #6
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I stand corrected!
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09-04-2018, 12:36 PM #7toggleGuest
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