Hooray for the 1901 Census but where is my G-Grandmother

[nelmit]

Hi Robert,

You may not have won anything in the tombola but you've hit the jackpot with the poorhouse applications!!

Hi Annette,
Robert DID win third prize in the Tombola So looks like he is doubly lucky and has another lookup coming

Cheers,
Sarah

Good grief Sarah - I didn't see him when I was scrolling through the draw on Sunday (I'm afraid I missed the party). Well now............. I wonder what he'll choose as a look up.

Best wishes,
Annette

[rjpaton]

Annette

Sorry I am on holidays & haven't been getting online very much. But what a pleasant surprise. All I can say is WOW - one whole branch of the family that I have been searching for just comes into view in one go, and with so much background info. Thank you so much for all this, it is wonderful. As for the Tombola I guess I have had my lookup already (several times over).

Robert

PS - I guess this post is now under the wrong category (Ireland) - or almost

[rjpaton]

Folks

Just an addendum for those interested in the medical side of things. The medical condition Susan Phillips (my g grandmother) had in the 1885 poor house application above, which Annette thought looked like 'Takes Mesentuice' would most probably be 'Tabes Mesenterica' which is "A wasting disease of childhood characterized by chronic inflammation of the lymphatic glands of the mesentery, attended with caseous degeneration. [Webster]." (sounds quite gross really). I found it at this really good website: http://www.antiquusmorbus.com/Index.htm which has a alphabetical list of old medical terms especially for geneological purposes. Its basically a type of tuberculosis & it seems surprising that she survived to adulthood. These types of consumptive conditions were much more common once (for example 'scrofula' which is tuberculosis of the neck) & nearly always associated with being "immuno-compromised" - ie poor immune system due to malnutrition and basically a hard life. Times were pretty hard in 1885, especially if you were a hawker.

Rob