Bob, I just went to the site you had a link for. It also says "or one who spins". Was it very common for woman to spin the who wool? This would have been 1860. Teresia Scott Hamilton, VA Genealogy, it's a family thing. Surnames: Sanders/Saunders, Smith, Cathcart, Jones, Combs, Barker, Hawn, Dunlevy, Clegg, Huckleberry, Yeary, Wallace, Russell, McCarty, Lowe, Legg, American Indian Places: Indiana, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, Ireland, Germany On Jan 12, 2006, at 11:31 AM, [email protected] wrote: > From: "Bob Wissinger" <[email protected]> > Date: January 12, 2006 9:58:54 AM EST > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [VALOUDOU-L] Census Terms > > > SPINSTER - A woman still unmarried........... > > See <http://members.tripod.com/~Silvie/charts.html> for a great list of > genealogy terms > > Regards, > Bob Wissinger