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Wed 24 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14:15
    16:30

Thu 25 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14:15
    16:30

Fri 26 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14.15
    16.30

Sat 27 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14:15
    16:30

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Wednesday 24 March 2004 14:15
H-3 FAM03 Family formation and failure? England 1400-1750
Room H
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Sheila Cooper
Organizers: - Discussant: Sölvi Sogner
Amanda Capern : Women, Wealth and Family in Lincolnshire 1550-1750
This will be a work-in-progress paper on the connections between women’s wealth and family relationships in early-modern Lincolnshire. The paper will report on the first year’s findings of a research project that has as its focus women’s inheritance of land and capital wealth. Two areas of interest will be covered:
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This will be a work-in-progress paper on the connections between women’s wealth and family relationships in early-modern Lincolnshire. The paper will report on the first year’s findings of a research project that has as its focus women’s inheritance of land and capital wealth. Two areas of interest will be covered:
Demographic failure of the male line - the paper will present early findings on the frequency of failures of the male line and the implications for female inheritance;
The culture of property - my research will be covering questions such as ‘did increasing use of marriage settlements lead to a feminisation of the concept of the portion?’ and ‘did use of the strict settlement lead to masculinisation of the idea of land ownership?’.
The aim of the paper is to demonstrate the interactive nature of legal and social change. I wish to re-visit models of social change in the family that emphasise affective relationships, shape and order to suggest that the early-modern family was ‘transactional’. The exemplary material will largely be drawn from the Ancaster, Yarborough, Brownlow, Heneage and Monson MSS, covering the main landed families of Lincolnshire. (Show less)

Philippa Maddern : 'The ever-changing family'; effects of life-cycle and social context
To date, family history in late-medieval England has focussed largely on one variant--the household grouping, related by blood. Yet experiences and concepts of 'the family' surely shift, both in relationship to the lifecycles of the participants, and the varying social circumstances in which the 'family' operates. The 'family' with whom ... (Show more)
To date, family history in late-medieval England has focussed largely on one variant--the household grouping, related by blood. Yet experiences and concepts of 'the family' surely shift, both in relationship to the lifecycles of the participants, and the varying social circumstances in which the 'family' operates. The 'family' with whom we live, for example,is not the same as 'the family' whom we invite to a wedding. In this paper, using the letters, wills, naming practices and deed evidence of Norfolk gentry in the fifteenth century, I will examine the several different forms of 'family' through which an individual might move during their lifetime, together with the differing understandings of kin and household groupings which shaped the behaviour of individuals at their most crucial life stages--marriage, the baptism of children, and the disposition of property at death. (Show less)



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