AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS
May 04, 2021
4 minutes
The discovery of agricultural labourers is commonplace in most researchers’ family history. While researching them may seem challenging because of a lack of written records, you can find out more about them in a surprising number of common sources.
The term ‘ag lab’ was quite uncommon before the 1841 census, when it became a standard abbreviation used by enumerators. Before 1841 they were referred to as labourers, farm servants or by a specific term such as ploughman or shepherd. In the 20th century your ancestor may have been a Land Army girl, a prisoner of war or an evacuee working on a farm during the world wars.
There is no single record that enables
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