Title: Colonial Women ***
Headings: Colonial Women
Colonial Women
Colonial Women

Content: Usually over over a fire or in brick ovens - Refer to Colonial Food
Heating: Preparing the fires
Lighting: Making candles
Housework: Making soap. Cleaning was never ending with dust everywhere form the open fires
Emptying chamber pots
Clothes: Spinning, weaving, knitting and making clothes
Laundry: Washing and ironing clothes
Tending the sick: Including collecting herbs and making remedies
Childcare
Caring for Livestock: Farm or plantation life required Colonial women to feed the animals, milk the cows, gather eggs etc


The work and tasks undertaken would vary according to the status of the woman. The Legal Rights of Colonial Women
The legal rights of Colonial women were few.