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Re: Deciphering a Word
« Reply #18 on: Friday 28 March 14 10:14 GMT (UK) »
There are five admissions on two pages (the rest are discharges). The word is written on 4 of those admissions, the fifth is women who arrived via ship. All women appear to be unmarried women.
Woodhurst (ENG - Aust), Robins (Corn - Aust), Everett (Dorset - Aust), Younger (Lanark - Aust), Shadbolt (Hert - Aust), Ashton (Som - Aust), Coward (Wilt - Aust), Tanswell (Leic - Aust), Lane (Dor - Aust), James (Pemb - Aust), Aylward/Elward (Glam - Aust), Done (Ches & Shrop - Aust), Pearce (London - Sydney), Fraser (Argyll - Aust), Smith (Moray - Aust), Ross (London - Aust)

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Re: Deciphering a Word
« Reply #19 on: Friday 28 March 14 10:16 GMT (UK) »
Here is the one who arrived via ship
Woodhurst (ENG - Aust), Robins (Corn - Aust), Everett (Dorset - Aust), Younger (Lanark - Aust), Shadbolt (Hert - Aust), Ashton (Som - Aust), Coward (Wilt - Aust), Tanswell (Leic - Aust), Lane (Dor - Aust), James (Pemb - Aust), Aylward/Elward (Glam - Aust), Done (Ches & Shrop - Aust), Pearce (London - Sydney), Fraser (Argyll - Aust), Smith (Moray - Aust), Ross (London - Aust)

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Re: Deciphering a Word
« Reply #20 on: Friday 28 March 14 10:24 GMT (UK) »
Hi,
If the other 4 women did not arrive by ship could the word be "Native" ie not from abroad, England etc?  :-\

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« Reply #21 on: Friday 28 March 14 10:29 GMT (UK) »
Since we are all guessing, I have sent Martyn Killion and Heather Garnsey an e-mail asking what the signifience of the word is. They run a private web site for the historical index of the Asylum. I will post their reply.

http://www.sydneybenevolentasylum.com/

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Malky, who thought it was Notarie (short hand) or Nalorie ??????????

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« Reply #22 on: Friday 28 March 14 10:40 GMT (UK) »
I suspect the word is to do with the 'status'  married/widowed/spinster or occupation .... so it could be the Latin for 'Notorious' which  I think I may have come across years ago when transcribing some 19th Century NSW Supreme court notes... In those instances the women were pregnant and the clergy sent them the Sydney Benevolent Society to remove them from their pimps ...

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Re: Deciphering a Word
« Reply #23 on: Friday 28 March 14 11:15 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: gimmeatooheys on Friday 28 March 14 09:56 GMT (UK)
I think its linked to the word pregnant. I have seen the word repeated three times, twice following Church of England and once following Wesleyan. The word was used when the pregnant women were admitted.

Maybe a Latin word or something?

Well, indeed. Think "post-natal depression" to see the Latin root.

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« Reply #24 on: Friday 28 March 14 11:16 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: jess5athome on Friday 28 March 14 10:24 GMT (UK)
Hi,
If the other 4 women did not arrive by ship could the word be "Native" ie not from abroad, England etc?  :-\

Regards.
Frank. (clutching at straws)

The (dotted) "i" is consistently in the wrong place for that.

The word is also consistently capitalized, and it appears the writer
is very careful about capitalization in all the examples. That would make it either a religious
term (the bible capitalizes "He" in some cases...) or a proper noun.

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« Reply #25 on: Friday 28 March 14 11:28 GMT (UK) »
Hi bugbear, yeah, I can see that now  :-[ ( too much looking I suspect  ;D )

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« Reply #26 on: Friday 28 March 14 11:48 GMT (UK) »
'Notorie' a French word sometimes used to discreetly indicate a women who earned her living as a prostitute .... from a friend who also transcribed NSW Supreme Court records from the 19th century.  I believe Gadget has offered that word

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