« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 19 April 11 20:16 BST (UK) »
Hi Rosie
As mentioned a HIGGLER itinerant dealer who haggles or bargains
I found in the 1895 Kellys Directory of commercial
Farewell Tagg, Farmer at Brentwood Gate.
Farewell is 3 years old on the 1871 census.
You ask why the three children are by themselves in the house on Commonside
I dont know for sure but it is a small village and maybe the place they had was a L shape. Therefore, the family live in two sections of the same house but the back of it faces onto Commonside. I also notice in the Kellys directory it states that a mail box is on the wall of Commonside.
So this lead me to believe the back went onto a main road and the other part of the house was on around the corner? The three children were in that back part sleeping there. We have no knowledge of how people thought to fill out the census in those days and if they couldnt write the scribe would have done it for them.
We have just done the 2011 census the other week and I had to read it twice before I could fill it out properly, so just think if you couldnt read at all lol.
regards Sandymc
Midgley, Fowler, Chadwick, Kilvington, Routledge, Hewitt, Stevenson, Ward, Waite, Binks , Buck, Pearson, Stanley, Firth, Child, Hobson, Rogers, all Leeds and Yorkshire for centuaries except the Routledges from Wigton, Cumbria and Middlesbrough. Related to McAllisters of Wilsontown