General Chat

I saw this book advertised ~

Sewerage Records: An Untapped Magnificent Resource - S. Zada
Sewerage is not something we instantly associate with our ancestors, nor is it a resource that many people have high on their list for checking. By the time you have reached the end of this book, your view on sewerage and its value to our family and local history research should have changed.

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If you know the area fairly well the Court of Sewers archives can be very interesting. I have used them a fair bit to my mediaeval stuff.

If your ancestors were agricultural labourers it would have been fairly relevant to them, even more so if they were farmers, because sewers can be broadly construed as ditches.

Sewerage, I would think, is more of a modern, urban thing but very, very relevant to the health of your ancestors.

Here endeth my interlude as a clever clogs.

The blurb (as above) doesn't give much of a clue as to where you would look.

My great-uncles were fruit farmers........ I wonder if they're in the .... list?

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I doubt they would be on any lists unless they were members of the court which was the predecessor of the river boards.

As farmers it is possible that they may have sat on the board.

A2A, go to the relevant county records and try Court of Sewers or the name of the farm with which they were associated.

I DID A TOUR OF BRIGHTON SEWER

ty Sharron, I'll try that......... in Scotland?

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Dizzi ~ did you buy any postcards? :-D

I don't know about Scotland but would assume they had some sort of land-drainage legislation.

It is not an ideal place to look for family history purposes but who knows what surprises you may have.