Wages and prices in C19th Sutherland and Caithness

[helenwyler]

If you can handle £. s. d. this is an interesting site :).

http://www.broughtysands.co.uk/sutherland-wages-prices.htm

[Casey]

Reay's Village Grocer in 1855 used to travel up and down Strath Halladale in his horse and cart selling at the following prices:-

Butter sells at 1/- per lb
Eggs 5½d per dozen

Sugar is 4/- per lb
Tea is 2/4 per half lb
Coffee is 1/8 per lb
Peas Meal is 2/- per lb
Flour is 3/9 a Stone.
Oat Meal is 20/- a Boll.
Bere Meal is 15/- a Boll
Barley is 2/2 a Stone.
Biscuits are 6d per lb.
Indigo is 6d per lb.
Soft Tobacco is 1/3 per lb.
Tobacco is 4/- per lb
Molasses is 11/2 per lb.


taken from a notebook of William Innes Manson (1824-1891)

[Christina Baldwin]

Hi and thanks for this thread. Most interesting. I want some more information here but I want to broaden the query so I will start a new thread. Christina