A growing category Introduction Victorian Bournemouth (127) begins a series of articles which analyses want ads for indoor, female servants appearing in the Western Gazette 1878-1881. Subjects studied include types of servant sought, qualities desired, ages, and pay. The analysis also touches on such larger issues as Bournemouth’s economic health, the social profile of employers, […]
Steady, younger, multi-taskers Introduction Victorian Bournemouth (89) explores the category of female servants recorded at Bournemouth and its rural neighbourhood for the period 1851-1871. The occupations’ field used by the census provides much useful data. Job advertisements appearing in the press add more texture. Victorian Bournemouth (89): categories and demographics Categories of female domestic service […]
Introduction Local servants, from Poole, Christchurch, and the Greater Westover villages, worked at different domestic duties in the early Victorian Bournemouth local economy. Servants found in the larger vacation villas appear to have accompanied their employers. People local to the area, however, appear to have provided service to retailers, professionals, some lodging-houses, and the hotels. […]
Introduction Servants’ fortunes varied after their working stint at Bournemouth (1851), where data can track them. For some, record linkage enables partial reconstruction of their later life-stages. This analysis studies the later lives of found servants working in the row of sixteen holiday buildings known as Westover Villas. It explores how people comprising this important […]