"Fenar" - occupation in Scotland in 1881
 

Does anyone know what a fenar did?

It is given as an occupation in the 1881 Census.

Are you sure it doesn't say Feuar? A feudal tenant of land.

I don't have the image as it's not worth it, Kite. I'm just documenting the men called James Sim in Banffshire.

It's probably a mistranscription.

Thanks, I didn't know that term.

There are a lot of them on all the Scottish censuses.

There's the odd Scottish person on the English census with this as occ. eg David Campbell Smith aged 49 in 1911 who has "(House owner) fenar" as his occ. (He lives in the road where I had my covid jabs!)

Although I agree it is most probably feuer, the word fenar apparently means "to hay, to cut green plants for fodder" so it isn't entirely clear!

OC