OCR madness part deux!! …..

PaulaD · Post by **PaulaD** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 7:58 pm

Whilst browsing through the 1871 on Ancestry trying find some more lang deid yins I came across this poor woman

Helen Laidlaw
Age 63
Born Bermondsey, London
Occupation (lady) Noaxvpartance Anytgine

I do wish she was mine - would make a nice change from all the ag labs.
She was lodging with the local doctor so she must have been a great help to him

Paula

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 11:18 pm

Hi Paula

Occupation (lady) Noaxvpartance Anytgine

hmm.. is that second word meant to be Antique, I wonder. Its anyone's guess!!

And if it is .....what on earth is the first word???????
Maybe "Noaxvpartance Anytgine" might be some obscure medicine, since she lodged with the doctor - perhaps she indulged in some illegal distilling of same?

Good find.

Best wishes
Lesley

grannysrock · Post by **grannysrock** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 6:25 pm

- maybe some kind of annuity ?
Non-occupational annuity ( bit early for such terms perhaps! )

It may well say something totally different - you never know with these transcriptions

Sally

BarbR · Post by **BarbR** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 1:59 am

I have Laidlaws a plenty in my tree, and would love to claim her too, but I think mine were all born Scotland

Barbara
P.S. I have no idea what that occupation could be

Post by **SarahND** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 2:41 am

Hi all,

In 1861 she is a "Fund Holders Daur"
And in 1881 "Income Derved From Dividend Interst Ic"
In 1891 at age 85, she has given up on having any occupation listed

So... one gets the gist, but the actual words used in 1871 are not obvious!

I think I would go for a version of Sally's guess: No Occupation, Annuity

Regards,
Sarah

JustJean · Post by **JustJean** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 3:00 am

The writings a bit run all together but it sure looks like

(lady) noaocupationat any time

(the any time being squeezed in over the other as if he ran out of writing space)......

I'm getting a visual image of a very proper and domineering Ms. Laidlaw instructing the poor enumerator as he franitcally scribbled onto his forms in an effort to keep pace with her dictation that "she was a lady and at no time in her life had she ever had an occupation"....but I could be way wrong

Best wishes
Jean

Post by **SarahND** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 3:09 am

And she wouldn't be caught dead working!

Yes, one can imagine it

(Makes one want to check her death cert, to see if she was working at the time

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