There are boiling houses for different purposes, 1 of which is for llinen... http://www.irishlinenmills.com/Production/18c_production/18century09.htm Calves were separated from their mothers soon after birth to shorten the time when the mothers milk could be used by the farmer. On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 6:51 AM, Clare Tuohy <annclare@gofree.indigo.ie>wrote: > Do is abbreviation for ditto > Church of England (a.k.a. Anglican church) was the established (state > recognised) church in Ireland until the late 1860's I think.Can't help with > the other queries except that cow or calf houses would have held a number > of > cattle (depending how affluent the family was). > > Clare > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "C Sullivan" <c_lion@purringfox.com> > To: <beara@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 9:39 AM > Subject: Re: [BEARA] 1911 Census online for Cork > > > > Thanks for posting the links. Even though I have yet to find my Beara > > connection I really enjoyed looking at the various pages of Timothy > > Sullivan families and how they lived and worshiped and so on. > > > > I do have a few questions. > > > > What does DO stand for? I know it means duplicate above entry but > wondered > > the exact meaning. > > > > What is a boiling house? > > > > Why is it that so many children listed as scholors still are listed as > not > > able to read when aged 9 or 7 and so on? > > > > It seems quite a few families had more cow houses than rooms in their > > houses. What is a cow house vs a calf house and did they hold more than 1 > > animal each? > > > > What is/was the Church of Ireland? > > > > I did kind of crack up at the employment listing of "farmer's daughter" > > now we know who all those jokes were referring to. > > > > ~~C Sullivan > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > > in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > -- > I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. > We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. > SPAMfighter has removed 418 of my spam emails to date. > Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len > > The Professional version does not have this message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >