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Where did female servants stay in 19th century?
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Stevendeg | Report | 16 Jul 2009 03:41 |
I am interested about where female servants stay. Because my great grandmother was fostered and I suspect her single mother might be a female servant so she would be unable to look after her baby. |
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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it | Report | 16 Jul 2009 06:04 |
Most of them would live in .Houses that could afford servants would have servants quarters normally in Attic rooms. My old family home was a Victorian house which had two attic bedrooms with dormer windows which would be the servants rooms.Running along the back of the row of terrace houses was the stables with rooms over the top where the grooms would be housed,When we lived there and indeed now its used as a wood yard by a separate private owner, |
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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it | Report | 16 Jul 2009 06:07 |
Whoops that was me deleting I hit Delete instead of Edit but managed to recover my reply |
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AllanC | Report | 16 Jul 2009 07:37 |
I live in a Victorian semi, built 1898 which has two attic bedrooms, very hot in summer, very cold in winter, which is where the servants would have lived. The 1901 census shows the house occupied by a hosiery manufacturer and his family plus a general servant and a nursemaid (the nursemaid was only 15). By 1911 the house had changed hands and was occupied by a single lady of independent means, but still employing two servants - a housemaid and a cook. |
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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it | Report | 16 Jul 2009 10:30 |
Yes tell me about it !! I used to sleep in one of the attic bedrooms and in the winter was absolutely freezing . You woke up in the morning with the tip ofyour nose frozen and red cos used to put head under the blankets just keeping the nostrils above them so could breath. The inside of the windows would be frozen in patterns from the warm air that we generated from our breath. I used to have two other siblings in the same room. me in a single bed and the two others shared a double bed. |
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AllanC | Report | 16 Jul 2009 10:58 |
Central heating doesn't reach the top floor! No room for a header tank and if there was the boiler wouldn't cope. |
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Stevendeg | Report | 17 Jul 2009 03:16 |
Hi many thanks for your messages in my thread. It was very interested. |