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From: "Clare Higgins" <>
Subject: Re: [NY-IRISH] A bit of Census humor
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:21:15 -0400
In-Reply-To: <ccd.5a50d46e.377bb914@aol.com>


"Old man of the house" -- that's funny! I find many of my ancestors listed
simply as "laborer," and I wish it were more specific.

Sometimes "exhaustion" as a cause of death is a general term for any
condition that causes a fatal loss of strength. My great-grandmother's cause
of death was listed as "asthenia (exhaustion)," and the details on the
certificate said she died of hemorrhaging from a miscarriage, and that she
also had TB. Her lungs must have been bleeding as well. The combination of
the two literally drained her of life. She was only 37.



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I always frind the occupations interesting (also death certificates cause
of death, I had one relative die of "exhaustion.")
I have one ancestor who in the 1870 census is 86 (he lived until 91). His
occupation is listed as "old man of the house"--Beers Radford, Middlebury
CT.
Erica

In a message dated 6/30/09 2:21:37 PM, writes:


> Terry has just shown what us transcribers find so much fun when
> reading all the census pages we read.  It is more than finding family
> ancestors, or putting info onto spreadsheets, censuses give us a story
> over time of families/people we never knew.  We often think about how
> they lived, what happened to their spouse, what kind of living
> conditions they had and then there are the various
> occupations....thanks Terry for sharing the doctor.
>
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Theresa Bora<>
> wrote:
> > I thought you might enjoy this little bit of info...it brightened my
> otherwise dreary, gray and rainy day. While transcribing the 1865 Troy
census
> today I came across an occupation for a Jane Morse.  She was listed as
> 'Doctores(s)'.  I needed to verify the surname, so I went to the 1860 US
NY
> census.  She's mis-indexed as Moore, but what really fascinated me was her

> occupation.  The census taker must have had a flight of fancy because he
has
> her listed as "Clairvoyant Physician'.  By 1870 she's back to just plain
> 'Physician', but for one brief and shining moment in 1860, she was
> 'clairvoyant'.  You have to love those census takers.
> > Terry Bora in Mich.
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Pat Connors, Sacramento CA
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