Q. 13. What in the whole might a labourer’s wife and four children, aged 14, 11, 8, and 5 years respectively, (the eldest a boy,) expect to earn in the year, obtaining, as in the former case, an average amount of employment?
856 parishes give for the man, an average of £27 17 10 668 parishes give for the wife and children an average of 13 19 10 --------- Average annual income of the family £41 17 8 ---------
Subsistence of agricultural labourers in England.
Q. 14. Could such a family subsist on the aggregate earnings of the father, mother, and children; and if so, on what food?
--------------+----------+---------+---------+----------+------- | Number of| No. | Yes. | Barely, | With | Parishes |(simply).|(simply).|or without| Meat. | answering| | | Meat. | | Q. 14. | | | | --------------+----------+---------+---------+----------+-------- Bedford | 15 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 11 Berks | 24 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 19 Bucks | 27 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 15 Cambridge | 33 | 2 | 11 | 3 | 17 Chester | 12 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 5 Cornwall | 24 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 21 Cumberland | 33 | 0 | 7 | 13 | 13 Derby | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 Devon | 18 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 9 Dorset | 16 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 9 Durham | 30 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 20 Essex | 38 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 14 Gloucester | 19 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 7 Hereford | 16 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 8 Hertford | 16 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 8 Huntingdon | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 Kent | 43 | 5 | 12 | 2 | 24 Lancaster | 14 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 5 Leicester | 14 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 5 Lincoln | 14 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 8 Middlesex | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 Monmouth | 7 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 Norfolk | 27 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 17 Northampton | 14 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 11 Northumberland| 18 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 16 Nottingham | 19 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 11 Oxford | 21 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 10 Rutland | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 Salop | 19 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 18 Somerset | 22 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 14 Southampton | 43 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 27 Stafford | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 10 Suffolk | 26 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 10 Surrey | 20 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 13 Sussex | 68 | 21 | 18 | 7 | 22 Warwick | 31 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 22 Westmorland | 17 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 Wilts | 24 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 12 Worcester | 18 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 9 York | 65 | 4 | 16 | 17 | 28 (40) +----------+---------+---------+----------+-------- | | | | | TOTAL | 899 | 71 | 212 | 125 | 491 --------------+----------+---------+---------+----------+--------