Farm History

[kathleencyork]

Hi, not sure if anyone can help, but where can I find the particular history of a farm…who lived there etc?  I’ve found 1 entry for 1939 but can’t find anything else

[Milliepede]

You could try looking for newspaper articles using the name of the farm and its location.

[GrahamSimons]

Try the county archives. Might be lucky, might draw a blank. I found loads of fascinating info in the Wiltshire archives.
You might write to the current farmer......

[MollyC]

Look for adverts of farm sales.  Not necessarily the farm itself, if it was tenanted, but a sale of livestock and equipment when a tenancy changed hands, which would be an auction on the premises.  Sometimes a tenancy would be advertised to let, although they often passed from father to son.  Also, many farms themselves were sold when estates were broken up, especially in the period 1918-1930.  Sale catalogues survive in libraries and archives.  Then track back through estate records which may be held by archives.

There is a concept known as tenantright when a tenancy changed hands.  The incoming tenant needed the capital to pay the "offgoing" tenant for any assets left behind, by agreement, as assessed by a valuer, including growing crops and drainage improvements.  A valuer's archive is a rich source of information.

[omega 1]

Hello kathleen

Welcome to Rootschat.

Can you tell
us know the name of the Farm and location. I may be able to help.Have several books
regarding Pembrokeshire and Homes/Farms.

omega