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You will find a close knit but welcoming group of keen genealogists all prepared to offer advice and help to new members.
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Member Since: October 2004 Posts: 1,054 Send Message	Peter	Report	7 Mar 2005 10:09
	It would be nice to think of them as care workers, But if you look up what it was like in Assilums in thous days Prison Warder whould be a more appt discription.
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 846 Send Message	William	Report	7 Mar 2005 09:59
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 846 Send Message	In 1891 two of my ancestors are listed as being 'Attendants of the Insane'.could they be more accurately described perhaps as 'warders',or perhaps the more modern equivalent,that of 'care worker'? Regards William Russell Jones Cefn Mawr Wrexham.

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