Land, Kinship and Life-Cycle [Paperback]

Essays on land transfer in English rural communities over the period 12501850.This collection of essays on land transfer presents detailed case studies from English rural communities over the period 12501850. The focus is on the strata of English society below the landed aristocracy and the urban merchant elites.This collection of essays on land transfer presents detailed case studies from English rural communities over the period 12501850. The focus is on the strata of English society below the landed aristocracy and the urban merchant elites.These essays in Land, Kinship and Life-Cycle present detailed case studies from English rural communities over the period 12501850, these essays reveal that much land was transferred between living persons who were related neither by blood nor by marriage and that kin were often not the only members of work groups or assistance networks in the countryside. Although the focus is on the strata of English society below the landed aristocracy and the urban merchant elites, the preoccupation with those holding land whether under freehold or customary or copyhold tenure is tempered by essays that investigate the economic problems in the lifecycles of the property less or those unable through, for example, illness or age to work and manage their property.Preface; 1. Some issues concerning families and their property in rural England 12501800 Richard M. Smith; 2. Population pressure, inheritance and the land market in a fourteenth-century peasant community Bruce M. S. Campbell; 3. Families and their land in an area of partible inheritance: Redgrave, Suffolk 12601320 Richard M. Smith; 4. Population changes and the transfer of customary land on a Cambridgeshire manor in the fourteenth century Jack Ravensdale; 5. Industrial employment and the rural land market 13801520 Ian Blanchard; 6. Changes in the size of peasant holdings in some west midland villages 14001540 Christopher Dyer; 7. The erosion of the family-land bond in the lalS.