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Member Since: April 2003 Posts: 2,483 Send Message	Lynne	Report	9 Jun 2003 22:30
Member Since: April 2003 Posts: 2,483 Send Message	Does anyone know what age men retired in the mid 1800's? I have just managed to make out the Occupation of my GG Grandfather on his daughter's birth certificate (its a very bad photocopy of a written certificate) and it says Pensioner. Lynne Sale
Member Since: November 2002 Posts: 141 Send Message	April	Report	9 Jun 2003 23:06
	Lynne, I dont think men actually retired in the 1800s, I have come across a war pensioner but he was only 49!! so i think they just worked as long as they could, they didnt have the state pension then (lol) April, Suffolk
Member Since: January 0001 Posts: 0 Send Message	Unknown	Report	9 Jun 2003 23:12
Member Since: January 0001 Posts: 0 Send Message	Just a guess, but people did not retire then. Bear in mind that the National Insurance and Welfare Schemes only happened in the mid 1900s. A Pensioner could have been on a regular payment for an industrial injury. (If he was lucky enough to have had a humanitarian Boss.) Or someone could have been collecting interest payments from a Trust or Inheritance. This was also considered a Pension. Or, of course, depending on his previous employment he may indeed have been on a "Company Pension" like where Lord Coughalot rewarded his old retainers. Hope this helps, Jim, Gosport.