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ElizabethHerts
08-07-21, 15:04
Does anyone know what a fenar did?

It is given as an occupation in the 1881 Census.
kiterunner
08-07-21, 15:12
Are you sure it doesn't say Feuar? A feudal tenant of land.
ElizabethHerts
08-07-21, 15:14
I don't have the image as it's not worth it, Kite. I'm just documenting the men called James Sim in Banffshire.

It's probably a mistranscription.

Thanks, I didn't know that term.
Merry
08-07-21, 15:24
There are a lot of them on all the Scottish censuses.
Merry
08-07-21, 15:32
There's the odd Scottish person on the English census with this as occ. eg David Campbell Smith aged 49 in 1911 who has "(House owner) fenar" as his occ. (He lives in the road where I had my covid jabs!)
Olde Crone
08-07-21, 16:52
Although I agree it is most probably feuer, the word fenar apparently means "to hay, to cut green plants for fodder" so it isn't entirely clear!

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