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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: Occupation 'Landed Proprietor
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 12:07:10 +0000


In message <>, Sarah Brewer
<> writes
>Arthur Strange wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>

>As far as I'm aware, "Landed Proprietor" means someone who owned huge
>tracts of land, deriving his/her income from same.
That is what it should mean, but some jokers with half a dozen acres
let out described themselves this way for snobbery or mick-taking
reasons.
--
Eve McLaughlin

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

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