(sexist comment coming in the name of humor) She took one look at him and immediately inventoried everything wrong with him. Jeff Erin James wrote: > It's interesting that the 1860 census taker had that flight of fancy and > called Jane Morse a "Clairvoyant Physician." You have to wonder why. Maybe > she said to the fellow, "bet I'm the first woman doctor you've counted!" and > he thought she was clairvoyant. There were so few woman doctors in those > days, I'm sure it was easier for him to think of her as a clairvoyant than > an actual doctor. > Just speculating! Erin > --- Original Message ----- > From: <ny-irish-request@rootsweb.com> > To: <ny-irish@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 3:01 AM > Subject: NY-IRISH Digest, Vol 4, Issue 109 > > > >> ====NY-Irish Mailing List==== >> Don't forget to check out the NY-Irish mailing list website. Also, >> check/add your NY-Irish surnames on the Surname Registry: >> http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/NYIrishList/ >> >> Today's Topics: >> >> 1. Re: Anybody know Latin? (Elizabeth Lynch) >> 2. A bit of Census humor (Theresa Bora) >> 3. Re: A bit of Census humor (Pat Connors) >> 4. Re: A bit of Census humor (VOOLICH@aol.com) >> 5. Re: A bit of Census humor (Clare Higgins) >> 6. Re: A bit of Census humor (MizScarlettNY@aol.com) >> 7. Re: A bit of Census humor (VOOLICH@aol.com) >> 8. Re: A bit of Census humor (VOOLICH@aol.com) >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:30:12 -0700 (PDT) >> From: Elizabeth Lynch <scribbler714@yahoo.com> >> Subject: Re: [NY-IRISH] Anybody know Latin? >> To: NY-IRISH@rootsweb.com >> Message-ID: <406714.48650.qm@web36103.mail.mud.yahoo.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >> >> >>>> "In matrimonio canonice conjuncti sunt a Rev. Bourke[?] Mauritius Higgins >>>> & >>>> >> Catherine Flanagan coram Cornelio Flanagan Joanne[?] Flyercate cum multis >> alies."<< >> >> Well, you already translated all the really important bits :) Here are >> some others: >> >> "coram" = in the presence of >> "cum multis alies" = "and many (or various) others" >> >> Liz >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 2 >> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:21:31 -0400 >> From: "Theresa Bora" <terrybora@wowway.com> >> Subject: [NY-IRISH] A bit of Census humor >> To: "NY-IRISH-L" <NY-IRISH-L@rootsweb.com>, >> <ny-troy-irish-gensoc@rootsweb.com> >> Message-ID: <005201c9f9a7$36486aa0$ab839543@Tipperary> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >> >> 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. >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 3 >> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:20:47 -0700 >> From: Pat Connors <nymets22@gmail.com> >> Subject: Re: [NY-IRISH] A bit of Census humor >> To: ny-irish@rootsweb.com >> Message-ID: >> <e194a7930906301120h7794b02bi2b6ef59bd64e5e6e@mail.gmail.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >> >> 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<terrybora@wowway.com> >> 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 >> http://www.connorsgenealogy.com >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 4 >> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:53:08 EDT >> From: VOOLICH@aol.com >> Subject: Re: [NY-IRISH] A bit of Census humor >> To: nymets22@gmail.com, ny-irish@rootsweb.com >> Message-ID: <ccd.5a50d46e.377bb914@aol.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" >> >> 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, nymets22@gmail.com 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<terrybora@wowway.com> >>> 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 >>> http://www.connorsgenealogy.com >>> >>> ====NY-Irish Mailing List==== >>> Don't forget to check out the NY-Irish mailing list website.? Also, >>> check/add your NY-Irish surnames on the Surname Registry:? >>> http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/NYIrishList/ >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> NY-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> quotes in the subject and >>> the body of the message >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> ************** >> A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy >> steps! >> (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1222377075x1201454393/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072&hmpgID=62& >> bcd=JunestepsfooterNO62) >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 5 >> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:21:15 -0400 >> From: "Clare Higgins" <clarehiggins@comcast.net> >> Subject: Re: [NY-IRISH] A bit of Census humor >> To: <ny-irish@rootsweb.com> >> Message-ID: <132CF6432ECA42B8B8C8943870CF58C2@HIGGINS> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >> >> "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. >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: ny-irish-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ny-irish-bounces@rootsweb.com] >> On Behalf Of VOOLICH@aol.com >> Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 2:53 PM >> To: nymets22@gmail.com; ny-irish@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Re: [NY-IRISH] A bit of Census humor >> >> 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, nymets22@gmail.com 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<terrybora@wowway.com> >>> 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 >>> http://www.connorsgenealogy.com >>> >>> ====NY-Irish Mailing List==== >>> Don't forget to check out the NY-Irish mailing list website.? Also, >>> check/add your NY-Irish surnames on the Surname Registry:? >>> http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/NYIrishList/ >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> NY-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> >> quotes in the subject and >> >>> the body of the message >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> ************** >> A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy >> steps! >> (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1222377075x1201454393/aol?redir=htt >> p://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072&hmpgID=62& >> bcd=JunestepsfooterNO62) >> ====NY-Irish Mailing List==== >> Don't forget to check out the NY-Irish mailing list website. Also, >> check/add your NY-Irish surnames on the Surname Registry: >> http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/NYIrishList/ >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> NY-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 6 >> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:00:29 EDT >> From: MizScarlettNY@aol.com >> Subject: Re: [NY-IRISH] A bit of Census humor >> To: ny-irish@rootsweb.com >> Message-ID: <c66.566bdab9.377bd6ed@aol.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" >> >> My favorite occupational find, for two 50+ yr old women in the same family >> was "Lady of Leisure." >> >> >> ************** >> A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See >> yours in just 2 easy steps! >> (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1222377075x1201454393/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc= >> 668072&hmpgID=62&bcd=JunestepsfooterNO62) >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 7 >> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:53:00 EDT >> From: VOOLICH@aol.com >> Subject: Re: [NY-IRISH] A bit of Census humor >> To: clarehiggins@comcast.net, ny-irish@rootsweb.com >> Message-ID: <d45.4bb26b25.377c1b7c@aol.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" >> >> How sad! >> May she rest in peace. >> Erica >> In a message dated 6/30/09 3:22:00 PM, clarehiggins@comcast.net writes: >> >> >> >>> "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. >>> >>> >> >> >> ************** >> A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. 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