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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: Silmaril on Monday 18 July 22 14:19 BST (UK)
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Hi
Any ideas as to what "declining housekeeping" means?
I have found it used on the attached 1841 advertisement for an auction.
Any help most welcome.
Thanks
Doug.
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the modern equivalent is possible the term "downsizing"
from the book "Stories from Home: English Domestic Interiors, 1750–1850" by Margaret Ponsonby
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Seems to have been very common. 33,549 hits for this phrase in the FindMyPast/BNA newspaper database, most recent in 1984.
https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Stories_from_Home/1JDeCwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22declining+housekeeping%22+property+sale&pg=PT73&printsec=frontcover
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OK great.
The individual concerned (Daniel Lucas jnr) had been married for only a few months prior to this "downsizing". Interesting.
Many thanks to all respondents !
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Is this by your man, Daniel Lucas?
https://www.vandaimages.com/results.asp?txtkeys1=daniel+lucas+jr%2E
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Is this by your man, Daniel Lucas?
https://www.vandaimages.com/results.asp?txtkeys1=daniel+lucas+jr%2E
I might expect it from “Southerners” but not the V&A - where on earth is “Stroke”-on-Trent?
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Thanks, yes, this is the man. A landscape painter of scenes on china ware.
Just like his father, of the same name, in Derby.
Thanks again.