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From: "JayneCanada" <>
Subject: [MEDICAL-PEDIGREE] Real interviews with ancestors in 1841
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 10:07:21 -0400

How would you like to have *first hand* interviews with your ancestors
in 1841?

Real primary information.... straight from the mouths of our ancestors!

Archive CD Books has obtained an extremely rare set of records. There are
*thousands* of interviews similar to the one below.

It will be one of the most important and fascinating CDs that we have ever
produced, and will be of interest to everyone with ancestors in the whole of
Britain and Ireland.

http://www.rod-neep.co.uk/books/ref/1068/
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Robert Johnson, aged 11
(Works in a tobacco factory in Chester)

How long have you been at work?
Two years and a half.

What is your work?
I turn the wheel, and pick and spread the tobacco-leaves.

Do you think it hard work?
Not at all hard.

Is it healthy?
Yes, I have always found it so. I had some swellings lately about the
neck, but I am much better.

Do you think the work you are engaged in brought them on?
No, I don't think so.

How many hours a-clay do you work?
We go to work at seven a.m. and work till six p.m.

Do you work overtime?
No, never.

Do you go home to dinner?
Yes.

What wages have you?
2s. a-week.

What use do you make of the money?
I give all to my mother for my food, clothing, &c.

Have you sufficient food and good clothes?
We have bread and butter at breakfast, and potatoes and bacon for
dinner, and in the evening we have tea or coffee and bread and butter or
we have bread and milk. I have very poor clothes, scarcely more than
what I have on, except a shirt or two.

Is your father alive?
Yes, he is a skinner.

What wages has he?
I think from 16s. to 18s. a-week.

Were you ever at school?
Yes, at the free-school.

What were you taught there?
I learnt very little there though I was a year at school, and have been
a year at Sunday-school.

Can you read?
No, not yet.

What is taught in the Sunday-school?
Spelling, the Reading Made Easy, and questions on religion.

Is your cottage comfortable?
Yes, I think so.

Have you knives and forks and a table-cloth at dinner?
No, we use a spoon and our fingers.

Is there a clock in the house?
No.

How many beds are there?
Two beds, they are in one room.

Does your father say daily prayers aloud for the family?
Yes, every night before we go to bed.

How do you employ yourself after work?
My father reads when he does not work over-time, and we walk out, if not
kept at home by my father, who gives us a lesson very often.

How do you spend Sunday evening?
We stay at home; my father won't let us play; both he and my mother
often read aloud to us.

Can you read?
No.

Can you spell your name?
No, I can't.

Are you inclined to learn?
Yes, if I had time.

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Information straight from the mouths of our ancestors.

Available on CD later now from the Archive CD Books Project.

http://www.rod-neep.co.uk/books/ref/1068/

Be prepared for some tear jerkers and lumps in throats.

Regards
Rod

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