Bean Family History by Willoughby John Bean
[Children of Samuel Edwin Bean contd]
and then died himself a girl who died young whose name I am not certain but think she was called Louise, Alexander, our father, and Joseph Alfred the last.
Samuel Edwin had about the year 1835 a good deal to arrange for Mrs Quincey the various agreements for valuation and apportionment of tithes of the various properties of hers and the parishes in which they were situated and under that tithe act which fixed, first the apportionment or amount per acre on the various fields or collection of fields called farms and then a sliding scale based on the average price of corn over each period of seven years, all of which worked out as that tithes fluctuated in amount but made them more - definitely the property of the tithe owner. Farming was a simple business in those days and especially on heavy lands were sheep were seldom kept, it was not so much internsive farming with good weatherproof building, well made farmyard ...