One further player of the pipe and tabor remains to be examined,
namely Thomas Langford, baptised at Charlbury on 18 March 1796, a son
of John and Jane 'of Finstock'. On 21 January 1821 he married Charlotte
Oliver, once again in Charlbury, though both were noted as belonging to
Finstock, and his wife came from a family who were involved with the
morris d ance team. He was a man whose early life was spent as a labourer
- he was so designated at the baptisms of eight children between 1821 and
1836 - and in the 1841 census was noted as 'Agricultural Labourer'. Ten
years later he had become a 'Farmer of 4 acres', and in 1861 was
enumerated as 'Landed Proprietor'. With holdings as small as four acres
his elevation from the labouring ranks was modest, but significant. With
the earnings gained from his musical activities and single daughters at
home doing gloving out-work (in 1861 at least) added to the equation the
family would probably have been relatively comfortable.
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