1851 census condition LET

[jere]

hello rootchaters.
Please can someone help me in finding out what the word let means . in 1851 census RG H0107 piece 2495 folio 392 page 7 machynlleth darowen parish caerseddfan
evan morgan shoemaker aged 67 with 3 daughters aged 28. 24 and 13 there are 3 children there in household 1 a bastard age 3 and 2 boys (one of whom is my gt.  grandfather) aged 2 and 1 condition to head of house states Let please can anyone tell me what let stands for.
 any help appreciated. jere.

[wendoree]

Hi,
Had a look  at the census-looks like let but could be set- (short for servant)-in the index at the bottom of the page it says servant.Its the same on other census pages each side of this one.Seems his life was set at a very young age.
Wendoree

[malijibic]

I have been asking the same question, I do not think that it is Servant as  the abreviation used has a high "t" at the end. If you go back to page 5 you will see examples of both servant and the mysterious let. On page 6 there is a father in law with the mysterious let.
Hope that you someone will solve the mystery.

[stanmapstone]

hello rootchaters.
 condition to head of house

It is Relation to Head of Family and apparently means "Let to me"

Stan

[stanmapstone]

This is another example.
Stan

[stanmapstone]

As this description seems to apply to the very young and the very old e.g. on page 6 aged 70 and 75, it could be to do with the poor Law.

Stan

[jere]

Hello Rootchaters.
 Thank you all for this info about Let seems like no one wanted him its so sad of this thing happening but what i was told of him he did not have a very good life and he died early in years.
Thank you all again. jere.