May 26, 2011 03:19
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German term
Instmann
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In an 1881 death record from West Prussia, the decedent (whose maiden name was Nowakowska, the feminine form of Nowakowski) is recorded as "Tochter der Instmann Nowakowski'schen Eheleute..."
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5 +2 | cottager or cotter | Ann C Sherwin |
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cottager or cotter
Variant of Inster. The 1902 Muret Sanders cross-references it to Einlieger: cottager, cotter. Haberkern/Wallach Hilfswörterbuch für Historiker explains Inster/Instmann: in Ostdt. bis ins 19. Jh. landwirtschaftlicher Arbeiter, der sich in einer Gutsherrschaft auf dem Dorfe o. dem Gute einmietete, Vieh hielt u. Land pachtete u. daneben gegen Taglohn auf dem Gute arbeitete.
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Under them, struggling to make ends meet, were the rugged peasant farmers (Bauern) and day- .’ laborers (Tagelohnern), the countryside’s dominant figures, who lived in the small, quiet, yet somewhat depressed hamlets that dotted the Mecklenburg countryside. In the area from which our family came, the landless day-laborers outnumbered the peasant farmers. Joachim Klafehn himself was a day-laborer, or Tagelohner.
Children, indeed, Joachim Klafehn’s own, were sent at a young age to work in the fields, on the farms, or in the houses of the wealthy landowners.
http://klafehn.wordpress.com/history/feudal-nineteenth-centu...
Children, indeed, Joachim Klafehn’s own, were sent at a young age to work in the fields, on the farms, or in the houses of the wealthy landowners.
http://klafehn.wordpress.com/history/feudal-nineteenth-centu...
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