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Post by bisdu on Mar 25, 2015 21:23:07 GMT 1
approximately how much £70 in 1674 would be worth in todays money. Done a google search but i don't think i'm phrasing the question correctly. Any ideas please
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Post by lib on Mar 25, 2015 22:33:00 GMT 1
£5813.50 at 2005 values
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Post by bisdu on Mar 25, 2015 22:41:40 GMT 1
Thank you Lib
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Post by Em on Mar 26, 2015 9:26:35 GMT 1
Why would you need the price of some thing in 1674??? I'm not usually nosey but..........
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2015 11:45:56 GMT 1
Why would you need the price of some thing in 1674??? I'm not usually nosey but.......... Shhh.....Bisdu is going time travelling and wanted to know how many groats she had to take with her.... edit : £70 = 5600 groats...
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Post by bisdu on Mar 26, 2015 12:12:49 GMT 1
Why would you need the price of some thing in 1674??? I'm not usually nosey but.......... Em - I am doing an ancestry chart. I found a will from one of my ancestors dated 1674. He left £32 to his daughter £20 each to two sons - ergo just over £70 and just out of interest one Bushell of big,(whaever that is) another of oats to his brother John I was interested to know how much that might equate to and even more interested to see that he left more to his daughter than his sons - quite unusual in those days I would have thought. Pete.....as you are the expert on groatsperhaps you also know what a big is (nothing rude please) If anyone is interested, this is it as it is written - I have missed out his name as it is not my research. February ye 23rd 1674
In ye name of God Amen, I (XXXXXXX) of Papcastle within ye Parish of Bridekirk, Yeoman being sick in body but of good and perfect remembrance doe make and ordaine this my last Will and Test’t in manor & form following…….etc etc….
First I give to my daughter Mary - Thirty Two Pounds
Item I give to my two sons Philip and Joseph either Twenty pounds
Item I make all my children executors of this my last Will and Test’t
Item I give to my brother John one Bushell of big, another of oats
And lastly my will and mind is I doe hereby committ all my children to ye tuicon and guardianship
of THOMAS BELMAN - Clerke and Vicar of ye Parish of Bridekirk aforesaid, who I doe desire
and hereby instruct to do this my last Will and Test’t performed and fulfilled & in Testimony of
I have hereunto set my hand and seal ….
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2015 14:45:51 GMT 1
I had to look it up Bisdu but 'bushel' (single L) in relation to dry goods applies oats, barley, maize and wheat. It's possible that 'big' is something else but translated from the hand that wrote the original testament. I think in 1674 it would either be in 'Court hand' or Latin....other than that I'm a bit flummoxed...
Just another thought but could they have written 'bly' (barley) instead of 'big' and the handwriting makes it look like big?
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Post by lib on Mar 26, 2015 15:10:59 GMT 1
No idea yet what a 'big' is or are.
Interestingly the amount of £5800 equivalent to £70 in 1674 would have been around £12200 equivalent to £70 a hundred years earlier.
Inflation is a lovely thing to explore, good old Henry VIII did a good job on debasing the currency too.
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Post by Ali on Mar 26, 2015 15:46:35 GMT 1
Great thread!!!
When I first read it I thought 1664 .....
Would love to hear how you get along bis
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Post by bisdu on Mar 26, 2015 16:11:15 GMT 1
Ali - I started doing this a few months ago - just briefly - when my granddaughter asked about it for a school project.
OH is one of 9 children so family everywhere and it made me realise i know almost nothing of my family.
My father did not speak to his parents hence little knowledge of my fathers side.
On my mothers side my great grandmother Josephine died in childbirth. My grandmother was therefore an only child and so was my mother -(now deceased) My maternal grandfather died before i was born so I am as good as an orphan -lol.
I looked on ancestry .co.uk and found people who were hitherto just names i had heard in a distant memory.
Last week I got an email from someone called Joan who is a close family member - my maternal great grandmothers (Josephine) side. Joan is 85 and has done the family tree in detail so we have been conversing a lot these past few days over the internet.
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