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1829 Directory - what does F and C signify after persons name?
« on: Tuesday 15 April 25 19:30 BST (UK) »
See image - from Pigotts 1829 Directory of Derbyshire.
Any idea's what the F and C indicates after certain names? Can't see a key in the directory.
F appears after some farmers but also after other trades, so I don't think it is F for Farmer.

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Re: 1829 Directory - what does F and C signify after persons name?
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 15 April 25 19:39 BST (UK) »
Wonder if it could be,C for Cottager and F for Farmer or Freeman , both terms used to describe the social standing of country people .
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Re: 1829 Directory - what does F and C signify after persons name?
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 15 April 25 19:47 BST (UK) »
It will probably be Freeholder and Copyholder.
(It will surely be explained somewhere in the Directory - either in the Introduction, or at the beginning of the listings, or at the end of the listings.)

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Re: 1829 Directory - what does F and C signify after persons name?
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 15 April 25 20:23 BST (UK) »
See here for Copyhold:
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,248750

It's in the Rootschat Lexicon, which can be found in the Reference Library, Link at bottom of page.
Garrad (Suffolk, Essex, Somerset), Crocker (Somerset), Vanstone (Devon, Jersey), Sims (Wiltshire), Bridger (Kent)


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Re: 1829 Directory - what does F and C signify after persons name?
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 15 April 25 21:04 BST (UK) »
It will probably be Freeholder and Copyholder.
(It will surely be explained somewhere in the Directory - either in the Introduction, or at the beginning of the listings, or at the end of the listings.)

Finally found it at the back - Freeholders liable to serve on Juries, and Copyholders.