Does anyone know exactly what the duties of a farm bailiff would have entailed in the mid 19th century? Would he have to be able to read and write?
I have a man who was an illiterate farm labourer in 1864 (signed his daughter's birth cert with 'x his mark') who was possibly a farm bailiff by the time his son married in 1876, if I have the right one.
I have a man who was an illiterate farm labourer in 1864 (signed his daughter's birth cert with 'x his mark') who was possibly a farm bailiff by the time his son married in 1876, if I have the right one.
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