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Annuitants

Posted: 28 Feb 2015 12:21PM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi - is there any way of finding out why someone was an annuitant? Or what the payment was for. My information states a women, grandmother (70yr) to the head of house, and annuitant as a profession.

Re: Annuitants

Posted: 28 Feb 2015 2:03PM GMT
Classification: Query
If you can find your ancestor in a census while she was working, there's a good chance it will list her occupation. You might also be able to find her in a phone book or trade directory. Without knowing any dates, names, or locations, specific information cannot be provided.

Re: Annuitants

Posted: 1 Mar 2015 4:08AM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi, I have her as a past occupation of being a nurse, I'm just not entirely sure of what an annuity covered in 1800s

Re: Annuitants

Posted: 1 Mar 2015 1:42PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 1 Mar 2015 1:45PM GMT
It's retirement income, probably a pension, from either her employer or, if she had been married, her husband's.

Re: Annuitants

Posted: 14 May 2015 4:56AM GMT
Classification: Query
Annuitant is another word used to describe a Pensioner by census takers.
I have an 84 year old relative living in my ancestors household in 1900 census that had "Capitalist" for occupation. Yet all earlier census he was a Farmer.

Re: Annuitants

Posted: 15 Jul 2015 11:38PM GMT
Classification: Query
I have an annuitant as well-on finding the will of her second husband it had the marriage contract (pre-nup?) included. it stated that she was to be left an annuity/income of 100GBP per year for life if he predeceased her, which of course happened as he was 78 and she was 37. This was in Scotland in 1872.
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