How Did My Isle Of Mann Ancestors Live In The Eighteenth Century?
Read General View of Agriculture in The Isle of Man. By Basil Quayle 1794 and Thomas Quayle 1812 This description of the ‘wretched cottages’ gives the reader a rich insight into not only the lives of the poor in the Isle 0f Man but also in the British Isles during nineteenth century on the eve of the Industrial Revolution. Section V. ~ Cottages The dwellings of the farmers and peasantry in this island are not commonly arranged in villages, bur scattered over the area of the country. The walls are about seven feet high, constructed of sods of earth; at each side of the door, appears a square hole, containing a leaded window. Chimney there is none, but a perforation of the roof, a little elevated at one end, emits great part of the smoke from the fire underneath. The timber forming the roof is slender, coarse and crooked. It is thatched with straw, crossed chequerwise, at intervals of twelve or eighteen inches, by ropes of the same material, secured either by being tied to the wall by me
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