’Tis the Season to be Quizzing – so you think you know your family history? Rounds 5 & 6

by thehistoryinterpreter

You’ve arrived on day 4, the final day, of a Family History Quiz. If you want to participate in earlier rounds, stop reading now, or you will find the answers to rounds 3 & 4 below. Just go to round 1 and return here when you’ve done those questions.

Here are the final quiz rounds

Round 5 Researching Women

  1. When was the married women’s property act passed?
  2. Which women were given the vote by the UK legislation of 1918?
  3. What was the minimum legal age for the marriage of girls, with parental consent, in England and Wales in 1928?
  4. In what decade did Marie Stopes open her first birth control clinic?
  5. In what decade did The Sex Discrimination Act remove restrictions on women’s financial rights, making it illegal for employers, banks, financial institutions and landlords to discriminate against women.

Round 6 What do these abbreviations stand for?

  1. b.o.t.p
  2. GRO
  3. PRONI
  4. d.s.p.
  5. FWK

Now for the answers to rounds 3 & 4. All the answers to round 4 come from my Discovering more about your Agricultural Labouring Ancestors online course, There’s a chance to brush up on your ag. lab. knowledge in the New Year. You can sign up here.

Round 3 Old Occupations

What did the following do?

  1. Pindar – looked after the pound
  2. Fletcher – one who put feathers on the ends of arrows
  3. Chapman – a merchant
  4. Cordwainer – shoemaker – originally one who used leather from Cordoba
  5. Badger – an itinerant seller of foodstuffs

 Round 4 Agricultural Labourers

  1. What was the name of the mythical person who was associated with a series of protests in the 1830s, that were directed at the introduction of threshing machines? These riots were predominantly conducted in East Anglia and the South East of England. Captain Swing
  2. What is the name of the series of county by county books, published by the Board of Agriculture between 1790 and 1820, that provide background information for those with rural ancestors? The General View of Agriculture
  3. What laws were repealed in 1846, reinstating a free market for grain in Britain? The Corn Laws
  4. Where can you consult the National Farm Survey for England and Wales? National Archives Kew
  5. Which English and Welsh census was the first to list the acreages of farms and the number of employees? 1851

Answers to rounds 5 & 6 coming up tomorrow.

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