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Old 08-02-2021, 07:34 PM   #11
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Default Re: Demographics of servants etc

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Indeed - noting that it's similar to the lower middle class filter: if you have a farm that can pass as anything above a smallholding, you're already better off than quite a lot of the population.

Also, I'm reminded that dairymaids were suprisingly well paid for female servants - apparently they required a great deal of skill and a good one had the capacity to make a lot of money for their employer.
Dairymaids and farm labourers are 'workers' rather than domestic servants, and are employed to make you money rather than to improve your standard of living by doing housework and the like, so it's not surprising that they were better paid.
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Old 08-05-2021, 03:33 AM   #12
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The space between people that had (a) servant and people that were servants was not that big. That niche you often ended up with people that lived in boarding houses which is sort of shared servants.
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