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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: [Lon] Unusual occupations!
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 23:08:24 +0100
In-Reply-To: <ECOWS02Mq8VhwN8vzGh000356ff@smtp-out2.blueyonder.co.uk>


In message <>,
Imogen Pennell <> writes
>My (Oxford) dictionary says that the term 'Slavey' derives from the word
>'Slave' and was applied especially to domestic servants who were
>hard-worked. That sounds a pretty candid to us, but as the term came into
>use before the abolition of slavery, it probably wouldn't have seemed so to
>many people at the time.

There was no PC nonsense about then - a single handed servant WAS a
slavey.
@There's me and the wife and the hungry slavey
Up to our eyes in grease and gravy

--
Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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