Don't forget!
The surnames are first.
For local people at this time the grocer was the main source of food. Poorer families would grow their own vegetables and might rear a pig in their own back yard but for salt, tea and a hundred other important things the local grocer was vital.
Guano
was one of the more unpleasant products to have to handle! On rocks and
islands the droppings of sea birds would build up into thick layers over
the years. This was collected and brought to land.
It came to Newtown along the canal and was sold as fertiliser
and spread on fields and gardens. Some
people had rotten jobs !
