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.
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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.
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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
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It's retirement income, probably a pension, from either her employer or, if she had been married, her husband's.
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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.
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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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