On 9/2/2013 2:38 PM, Janet wrote: > On another Rootsweb List to which I am subscribed we have been having a discussion about > education which moved to people needing to put a cross because they could not write their > name for the purposes of official record. It seems that it was not necessarily because a > person could not read or write but that the requirement was to write a name in English, > rather than Gaelic and some could not write their name in English. > Could the historians amongst us tell us more about it? We know that not every person had > an education sufficient to enable them to read or write but the incidence where language > was the reason is of interest. I think we need to know rather than draw the wrong > conclusions. > > > Janet > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > Thanks for raising this question. My Irish gg grandmother was renowned in family lore as a scholar who had a hedgerow school in Roscommon, yet on her marriage certificate she made a mark. That always puzzled me. Mary