Strange Occupations...but can someone confirm?

[Daisy Loo]

First I heard that Invalid was an occupation...and the one below...does it really say "afflicted"?


Sorry, pushed post instead of browse...would anyone be able to explain to me what "afflicted" meant.  It refers to a young lady, she is 34...she does go on to get married, 3 years after this census was taken, but she doesn't have children.  In the 1861 census, she was a "field worker"  the invalid is her brother...both living at home...how terrible for the parents!

[Pels:]

Hi Daisy,

I can't think it could be anything other than Afflicted .. ?

Me. 

[Daisy Loo]

Thanks Me

I thought I was getting a bit afflicted myself!  Don't suppose you have any ideas what it would mean?  Would I be better off posting that quesry in the common room?

[scrimnet]

I would say that someone who is an invalid, and afflicted (for that IS what it says!!!) may well have had polio or the such like....Or perhaps rheumatism or arthritis...

Oh I see...I've read this a bit upside down....

Afflicted ....and NOT an invalid... would normally mean a mental illness of some descrips...

BUT can mean a debilitating illness of medical origin...Shame they are not more precise on the census!!

[stanmapstone]

Afflicted means cast down, depressed, oppressed, in mind, body, grievously troubled or distressed, or grievously affected with continued disease of body or mind. So, as scrimmet says, she was probably suffering from some form of mental illness, if it was a physical illness then I would expect it to say invalid.

Stan

[Daisy Loo]

Thank you both
Could it refer to something like epilepsy?  She does go on to get married. albeit at the age of 37...(quite a dried up spnister really  )

The invalid was working previously as an ag lab, I suspect maybe some kind of farming accident happened to him.

Scrimnet...nice to see you    Have you heard anymore about becoming the Expert for WDYTYA?

[scrimnet]

Thank you both
Could it refer to something like epilepsy?  She does go on to get married. albeit at the age of 37...(quite a dried up spnister really  )

The invalid was working previously as an ag lab, I suspect maybe some kind of farming accident happened to him.

Scrimnet...nice to see you    Have you heard anymore about becoming the Expert for WDYTYA?

Hello you!

He he he!!

I've just had to give the magazine "Best Of British" a telling off!!

They have a 1970s Oil Crisis Petrol Ration book in the April issue, purporting to be a WW2 one!!Talk about misleading...They also folded over a date stamp, so one could not see "1973" on it!!!

Not only the design gave it away, but also the Queen Elizabeth Crown all over it!!

Nothing from WDYTYA as yet, but wait out!!

As for epilepsy...that is a possibility...

Could be a farming accident, but all sorts of illnesses/conditions/etc were about at the time...

Married at 37...Not too unusual these days, but then...she must have been on the self for some reason...

Have you a death cert for her?? That may be interesting....

[Daisy Loo]

Her entire family is proving very interesting...  have just posted a more detailed query about her "siblings" in the common room.

I don't have her death cert...she married a John Pope, and I have them together in 1881, but haven't found her since...haven't looked for a death reg yet for her.

I wonder if something more tragic happened...her brother appearing at the age of 40 as an invalid with the family in 1871, and her as "afflicted" at the same time....maybe a fire or something?  I'll have to have a look for death reg's for both...

Glad to see you keeping a careful eye on "Rogues"  .... we're in "safe" hands then!  Hehehe

Added:  Found Olive's death reg...she died in 1883 at the age of 45

[scrimnet]

There may be a contributory cause of death....That may lead to a hint towards an answer to the affliction and cause of being invalided....

Of course....He may have been invalided out of the forces....