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Census forms
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David | Report | 21 Feb 2016 15:46 |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 21 Feb 2016 15:48 |
probably if a person were deaf and dumb the enumerator would class them as an imbecile |
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Rambling | Report | 21 Feb 2016 16:00 |
Infirmities recorded on the census' |
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Rambling | Report | 21 Feb 2016 16:08 |
Remember also that many people in 'lunatic' asylums were suffering from things like grief at the death of a family member, depression, post natal depression, not being a 'good girl' etc, you can't really judge the definitions in the same way we use the words today. |
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David | Report | 21 Feb 2016 16:19 |
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KathleenBell | Report | 21 Feb 2016 16:19 |
In those days the words Idiot, imbecile etc. were just used as medical terms rather than derogatory terms. |
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InspectorGreenPen | Report | 21 Feb 2016 16:34 |
Not being able to read / write was common until the latter part of the 19th century until child education became the norm. |
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David | Report | 21 Feb 2016 16:42 |
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MargaretM | Report | 21 Feb 2016 16:46 |
Sometimes a tick was made in that last column by the enumerator to denote those that were born outside of the county. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 21 Feb 2016 21:41 |
David .......... |
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David | Report | 22 Feb 2016 08:08 |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 22 Feb 2016 11:44 |
A lot of my ancestors were coal miners in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. Indeed the last of the miners only died recently. |
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David | Report | 22 Feb 2016 13:00 |
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Dame*Shelly*("\(*o*)/") | Report | 22 Feb 2016 14:07 |
imbecile lunatic feeble minded idiot back words and mongrel |
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David | Report | 22 Feb 2016 20:09 |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 22 Feb 2016 21:11 |
but the medical profession used those terms ............ they were the terms in use, and the person had probably been diagnosed as that. |
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PricklyHolly | Report | 22 Feb 2016 21:27 |
If you delve deeper and look on sites such as the FamilySearch site, a child born out of wedlock was referred to as "Bastard Child" |
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MargaretM | Report | 22 Feb 2016 22:02 |
David, I wish you would go back to those census forms that have a tick in that column just to see if they were indeed made by the enumerator to denote those born out of the county, I have never seen a tick in that column to denote an infirmity, usually an infirmity is specified. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 22 Feb 2016 22:18 |
I agree with MM |
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David | Report | 23 Feb 2016 07:28 |
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