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Rank in life / Occupation

  • 06-06-2020 2:11pm
    #1
    Boss Of Bosses
    Registered Users Posts: 66 ✭✭


    Hi guys,
    Just reading of a great great Aunts death record in 1927, on the record it says her occupation was a Lady. Now we know she was a spinster. I Don't have any grand illusions she was a person of prominence but just trying to piece together the type of lives they had and occupations, and haven't seen this before.

    Regards.


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  • #2
    Hermy
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,299 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    I think the term Lady or Gentleman generally meant someone who didn't work for a living.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



  • #3
    Boss Of Bosses
    Registered Users Posts: 66 ✭✭Boss Of Bosses


    Hermy wrote: »
    I think the term Lady or Gentleman generally meant someone who didn't work for a living.

    Cheers Hermy.
    End up stumbling on her occupation earlier in her younger days. Housekeeper/Laundress type of work..


  • #4
    Hermy
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,299 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    Hermy wrote: »
    I think the term Lady or Gentleman generally meant someone who didn't work for a living.

    I could have worded that better.

    Someone who could afford not to work for a living - a gentleman with property or a lady with an annuity for instance.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



  • #5
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,103 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    If she was previously a housekeeper/laundress, could she have come into money? Agree with Hermy, 'Lady' was usually a woman of independent means.


  • #6
    KildareFan
    Registered Users Posts: 683 ✭✭✭KildareFan


    spurious wrote: »
    If she was previously a housekeeper/laundress, could she have come into money? Agree with Hermy, 'Lady' was usually a woman of independent means.


    My great aunt was a maid/companion for many years; her employers left her an annuity and a nice bequest on which she lived for the rest of her life until she died at a ripe old age in the 1960s. Not sure I'd call her a lady though, she loved toddling down to the pub for a whiskey and stole my ice cream (at least once).


    Having said that, "lady" usually referred to a woman of independent means, often living off dividends or an annuity, as in Great Aunty Mary.


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  • #7
    Boss Of Bosses
    Registered Users Posts: 66 ✭✭Boss Of Bosses


    Thanks All.
    She lived in a decent sized house in Sorrento Road, Dalkey.
    And was always listed as head of household.


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