Hi - MATRON: Married Woman; Woman of dignified appearance and dependable personality; A woman in charge of domestic arrangements at a school or other institution and/or senior nursing staff; a prison wardress. Just a couple from Chambers! Cheer Roy -----Original Message----- From: old-english-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:old-english-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of AMilb36287@aol.com Sent: 14 January 2009 19:25 To: OLD-ENGLISH-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [OEL] Matron (in 1901) The UK Incoming Passenger Lists on Ancestry show the "Umbria" arriving in Liverpool from New York in 1901. The "profession, occupation or calling" of the English woman I'm interested is given as "matron"; she's 30 and traveled in the second cabin. At first I thought she was a head nurse or something similar, but then I noticed that on the same page of the manifest, out of about 40 passengers there are 9 matrons (others are husband, wife, child, student, salesman, spinster, merchant, clerk, manufacturer, etc.). The same goes for other pages for this ship; there's no indication of it being a hospital ship. Could "matron" have another meaning? Thank you! Alejandro Milberg Boston, Mass. **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1215855013x1201028747/aol?redir=htt p://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072%26hmpgID=62%26bcd=De cemailfooterNO62) ==================================== WEB PAGE: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~oel/ ARCHIVES: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=OLD-ENGLISH ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OLD-ENGLISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message