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From being a young teenager my father always quizzed any boy or young man that I brought home. It was most embarrassing when the family moved to a village and my father asked one new pal; "What are your prospects young man?". As he was a farm labourer, I doubt he had any "prospects", even if he eventually lived in a tied farm cottage he would be expected to leave when he was too old to work on the land.
Having no prospects is probably why there were so many bachelors..
Aberdeen: Findlay-Shirras,McCarthy: MidLothian: Mason,Telford,Darling,Cruikshanks,Bennett,Sime, Bell: Lanarks:Crum, Brown, MacKenzie,Cameron, Glen, Millar; Ross: Urray:Mackenzie: Moray: Findlay; Marshall/Marischell: Perthshire: Brown Ferguson: Wales: McCarthy, Thomas: England: Almond, Askin, Dodson, Well(es). Harrison, Maw, McCarthy, Munford, Pye, Shearing, Smith, Smythe, Speight, Strike, Wallis/Wallace, Ward, Wells;Germany: Flamme,Ehlers, Bielstein, Germer, Mohlm, Reupke
