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Table 7.12 Male occupational structure in Studley burials 1695 to 1769 (shown as % of
adult male burials with known occupations)
1695-
1707
1720-
1729
1730-
1739
1740-
1749
1750-
1759
1760-
1769
Agriculture (excl. labourers) 36.4 22.7 16.7 20.0 17.5 11.1
Labourers 27.3 40.9 47.9 45.7 40.0 37.0
Extractive 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Building (excl. carpenters) 0.0 1.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Tailors/bodice makers 6.1 0.0 6.3 0.0 2.5 3.7
Other textile, clothing & paper 6.1 3.0 2.1 0.0 0.0 0.0
Shoemakers/cordwainers 3.0 4.5 4.2 5.7 0.0 7.4
Other leather, horn and tallow 0.0 1.5 0.0 0.0 2.5 0.0
Carpenters/joiners 3.0 3.0 0.0 2.9 2.5 0.0
Other woodworkers 0.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Blacksmiths/farriers 3.0 4.5 4.2 2.9 0.0 1.9
Other metal (excl. needles/hooks/pins) 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.5 0.0
Needles/hooks/pins 6.1 10.6 6.3 8.6 22.5 29.6
Transport 3.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Innkeepers/victuallers 0.0 1.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.9
Other food, retail, service, dealing 6.1 1.5 4.2 5.7 2.5 3.7
Domestic servants 0.0 1.5 8.3 5.7 5.0 3.7
Professional 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.9 2.5 0.0
Males with known occupations (n) 33 66 48 35 40 54
Occupations are recorded in the burial register for adult males from 1695 until the
1770s. 30 Table 7.12 broadly confirms the findings in the baptism register. Next we turn
to Studley’s neighbouring parish, Coughton, which also contains the hamlet of
Sambourne.
30 From 1770 recording of occupations is sporadic, so occupations are only shown to 1769 in the table,
which refers only to Studley residents. From 1695 to 1707 occupations were recorded for 73.3% of adult
male burials; from 1720 to 1769 the figure was 92.7%.
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