Titel: Household Survey Notations
Skrivet av: Leif Lundkvist skrivet 2015-06-17, 19:06
Farms of all kinds was measured in their taxation size, Mantal. Opphem Mellangård was 1 Mantal divided on two households. One owned by Erik Magnus and Alex and farmed by Erik Magnus, who farmed the whole 1/2 mantal that they owned together. I don't know why they say farmed 1/2, it should have been enough to say that they owned it together. Furthermore, I am not fully convinced that it is really one 1 in 1/2, but what else could it be? Alex is bookkeeper at Fågelfors and therefore not a farmer, and it is very possible that the ownership comes from the inheritans, you don't see in the church records how the business was done. Alexander on the next page owned the second household. Note that the taxation siza for that part seems to have changed from 1/2 Mantal (vith the same qurious 1) to 1/4 Mantal, and taxation size sometimes was revised. Where do you see something about a tenant?