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From: Pádraig Mór Ó Gealagáin<>
Subject: Re: [IRL-LIMERICK] Occupations
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:53:12 -0500
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True, if we spoke and wrote middle-English. But from the 17th century to the present the time it was used legal sense and later in the early 18th. century as a generic term to denote women who were unmarried.

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Subject: [IRL-LIMERICK] Occupations


Chris and all,

In looking at the Lydia's passenger list 'occupations' column, it occurs
to me that some clarification is in order. A woman listing her
occupation as "spinster" is not just a single woman. For the 1826 time
frame she undoubtedly is a spinner by trade. This was true for one of my
Dutch grandmothers, and her father, of this era.

Kelly Ward (also a spinner)
Schoolcraft, Michigan USA

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