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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: ValJJJ on Saturday 21 February 26 08:33 GMT (UK)
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Can anyone decide what was originally written against Elizabeth King please?
It says nurse then another short word, scribbled out later and annotated with sick.
She was in the household of a mother with a one-week old baby. So I would have expected her to be called a monthly nurse if helping with the new mother and baby. Perhaps there were other phrases used then?
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Sorry that’s not very sharp from my phone so I’ll make a better copy from the computer.
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Better image.
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Nurse.
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I think could be ‘Serv’ - looks like ‘v’ at the end
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Agree with emeltom..................nurse
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It’s the scribbled over word that ValJJJ wants. Nurse is mentioned in the opening post.
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Not positive what the word is, but I'm pretty sure that it is NOT "Serv" - look at the entry immediately below, plus at least two other entries on the same page, for the letter "S".
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Can anyone decide what was originally written against Elizabeth King please?
It says nurse then another short word, scribbled out later and annotated with sick.
I wonder if the scribbled out word might possibly have been 'dom[estic]'?
This is from the dictionary of occupational terms (admittedly based on a later census)
nurse, domestic ; children's nurse, mother's help, nursemaid, nurse sewing maid
takes charge of children or babies; washes, dresses them and takes them out; prepares any special foods for them; sews, mends, darns, cleans nursery, and does children's washing if required.
(The word nurse was added later by someone extracting information from the census for statistical purposes.)
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I've taken some of the scribble out.
could it be 'babies'
or
"Say what you see" or "what the person who wrote 'sick' saw" ( another word for illness maybe)
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I was thinking 'Dom' the same as JenB but I tried increasing it in size and it looked more like Drex under the scribble which made no sense at all.
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Not positive what the word is, but I'm pretty sure that it is NOT "Serv" - look at the entry immediately below, plus at least two other entries on the same page, for the letter "S".
Maybe not ‘serv’ then!
It is written in a different hand to ‘Nurse’ and ‘Sick’ is a different hand again. Comparing ‘S’ doesn’t really help.
It looks as though whoever added ‘out of emplyment’ was the same writer.
JenB’s ‘dom’ does look very possible.
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It looks like it is the enumerators note for collating data.
Nurse is her occupation, but it came under the category of 'sick' like a doctor. As a private nurse she could also have been listed under 'domestic' with house maid, cook etc.
Various mining jobs above and below ground were listed under 'mine or mining' etc.
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Thanks all of you. I think nurse + original word were entered first, then later when being gone through for analysis, someone has qualified it with the annotation’sick’ and scribbled out the mystery word because it didn’t fit into any preset categories.
I thought the mystery word ended with a ‘w’.
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Nurse is written in the ‘relationship to head’ column and the occupation column and look like they are in the same hand.
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Don’t forget that you are only looking at the enumerator's transcription of the original schedule. Mistakes were sometimes made during transcription and were later amended. You cannot be sure what the writing was like on the original schedule.
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And just read this https://www.ukcensusrecords.com/census-blog/1594984_trades-and-professions-in-the-census-1841-1901
Not that it helps much with the mystery word.
It does look like the penultimate letter is ‘x’ but nothing comes to mind that links in with nurse.
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Short words that might qualify the type of nurse:
Fever
Day
Night
No x in any of them!
Or a specific malady of either mother or baby? An outdated word so unfamiliar to us?
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Scroll down the left column of occupations to Nurse, then look underneath for different types of nurse.
https://census1891.com/occupations-n.php
Also other names for Nannie (Nanny) 1800 that may fit (nursemaid)
https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=359b18cf9b30c56c&rlz=1C1CHBD_en-GBGB1115GB1115&sxsrf=ANbL-n7hjgqMJoj_D8mvfQq_U5N3CbP6QQ:1771696510262&q=were+nannies+called+naay+in+the+1800%27s&spell=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiUj5Ppk-uSAxW5XEEAHYKgGN0QBSgAegQIDxAB&biw=1225&bih=572&dpr=1.57
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I was thinking 'Dom' the same as JenB
I agree with this - dom, for domestic. The final m has an upwards flick at the end.
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Snap Dobfarm! But no help unfortunately. Perhaps it was a Liverpudlian term? ;D
Just been looking at old names for illnesses but apoplexy (stroke) seems unlikely. Smallpox?
http://www.genproxy.co.uk/old_medical_terms.htm
https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Historical_Causes_of_Death
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Dom (Thin up strokes & thick down strokes)
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(As census)
Nurse Tended the sick.
Nurse Girl A trainee nurse.
Nurse, Dom A domestic nurse.
Nurse, Sick Nurse.
Nursemaid Nurses children