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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: Occupation 'Landed Proprietor
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 23:45:07 +0100


In message <l03120600b255996088c4@[205.205.157.72]>, Arthur Strange
<> writes
>Hi Folks,
>In the 1851 census for Henley a number of people have given 'Landed
>Proprietor's as their occupation. I would appreciate if anyone can tell me
>what a 'Landed Proprietor's is.
Someone who owns lands (possibly a mansion and estate, possible just a
few farms or fields, with attitude) and probably rents at least part of
it out and lives on the proceeds. Henley was quite a classy place. It's
a step up from `house proprietor' which is another sort of landlord.
--
Eve McLaughlin

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

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