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Handwriting decipher thread *must post link to full page*

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    #1592
    spurious
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    It looks like 'Inmate'.

    Was it a workhouse?


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    #1593
    New Home
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    I'm reading that as "Servant". Or am I looking at the wrong line?


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    #1594
    spurious
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    Servant is right for the profession. It is the next column I see 'Inmate' in.


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    #1595
    Mez1982
    Registered Users Posts: 69 ✭✭Mez1982


    spurious wrote: »
    It looks like 'Inmate'.

    Was it a workhouse?

    I honestly have no idea. Would Inmate be associated with the workhouse too? I only ever think about prison when I see Inmate. Though I don't think there was much of a difference between the two back then?


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    #1596
    spurious
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    Mez1982 wrote: »
    I honestly have no idea. Would Inmate be associated with the workhouse too?

    Yes, that's the term they used, for hospitals too, as well as our modern usage.
    I suppose you need someone from that area to know it might have been.


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    #1597
    Hermy
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,302 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    Mez1982 wrote: »
    ...Robert phillips his mark, something? Highstreet...

    The 'something' is father.

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    #1598
    kanadams123
    Registered Users Posts: 403 ✭✭kanadams123


    DEATH RECORD

    Not a very hard one tbh but i need a second pair of eyes!!!

    Cause of Death 153, last on page in above link.

    Looks like "Penticosis" but is this even a thng?

    Doesn't look like it spells pediculosis (which is infestation with lice).


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    #1599
    Hermy
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,302 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    Pertussis? Also known as whooping cough apparently.

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    #1600
    kanadams123
    Registered Users Posts: 403 ✭✭kanadams123


    Hermy wrote: »
    Pertussis? Also known as whooping cough apparently.

    Ahh, that could very well be it. If i look closely i can see the double s, where i thought i was seeing an o!

    Perfect thanks!


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    #1601
    VirginiaB
    Registered Users Posts: 399 ✭✭VirginiaB


    Definitely pertussis, aka whooping cough.  A major killer, especially of babies and young children.  The vaccine against it is one of the first shots they get today.


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    #1602
    Hermy
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    Fifth line from the top, right hand page, Feb 4th 1831, baptism of John Hearne.

    Anyone got an idea of the mothers surname?

    https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000632931#page/40/mode/1up

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    #1603
    New Home
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    I'm reading it as Mary Metiage (perhaps French-speaking?). If it's the next line, then I'm reading Treacy.


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    #1604
    montgo
    Registered Users Posts: 565 ✭✭✭montgo


    McTeige/McTague?


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    #1605
    Hermy
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    Thanks for the replies.

    Ancestry transcribed it as Metiage but McTeige or variant seems more plausible.

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    #1606
    New Home
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    I'm surprised the T isn't capitalised.


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    #1607
    montgo
    Registered Users Posts: 565 ✭✭✭montgo


    A daughter born on 24 April 1833 to same couple - looks like McTague.


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    #1608
    Hermy
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,302 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    The first word after the date for each entry looks to be a place name.

    For my entry the name appears to be Hohan but I can't find it on the map.
    Can anyone enlighten me?

    EDIT: I wonder would it ever be Slihaun?

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    #1609
    spurious
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    Hermy wrote: »

    EDIT: I wonder would it ever be Slihaun?

    If you look on logainm.ie there is at least one period where it was known as Slahaun (Beg and More), so I think you're right.


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    #1610
    sheepintheback
    Registered Users Posts: 42 ✭sheepintheback


    BIRTH RECORD

    in the 5th birth down there is an X next to Paul Donovan's (Father) Name, along with a note in the right column next to this birth. Can anyone read what this note is? and what could it mean?


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    #1611
    kanadams123
    Registered Users Posts: 403 ✭✭kanadams123


    Actual Register???

    The note is corresponding to the mistake under the informant column, where the mothers maiden name was wrote instead of her actual name Mrs. donovan


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    #1612
    Hermy
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    Usually these notes are pointing out an error in the entry. In this case I think the error the note - which reads J. W. Y. Assistant Registrar - refers to is the wife's maiden name being entered in column 8 instead of her married name.

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    #1613
    srmf5
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    Can anyone make out the cause of death on this record?


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    #1614
    New Home
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    The second word is "croup".


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    #1615
    srmf5
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    New Home wrote: »
    The second word is "croup".

    Thank you! I wonder if it's viral croup then. It doesn't really look like viral but maybe.


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    #1616
    New Home
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    srmf5 wrote: »
    Thank you! I wonder if it's viral croup then. It doesn't really look like viral but maybe.


    TBH, I don't think so, the "A" looks different in other words. I think it's Me- or Ne- something; it may also be an abbreviation, considering there's a full stop after it.


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    #1617
    L1011
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    James Wainhouse's occupation and Joanna Moran's residence are both a bit awkward to decode here

    https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1881/11021/8030103.pdf

    20th Hussars I know from a later birth cert but he's down as 'servant' on that. The residence might be Duncannon?


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    #1618
    New Home
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    L1011 wrote: »
    James Wainhouse's occupation and Joanna Moran's residence are both a bit awkward to decode here

    https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1881/11021/8030103.pdf

    20th Hussars I know from a later birth cert but he's down as 'servant' on that. The residence might be Duncannon?

    Officer's Servant, 20th Hussars.


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    #1619
    New Home
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    New Ross and Duncannon, Wexford, I'd say.


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    #1620
    Jellybaby1
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    New Home wrote: »
    Officer's Servant, 20th Hussars.


    AKA a batman.


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    #1621
    yaledo
    Registered Users Posts: 249 ✭✭yaledo


    This isn't really a handrwriting question - it's a question of interpreting a register entry that seems to have an extra field. I'd really like some help.

    Struggling with the Dec 3 Entry here in the register of baptisms for Moycullen, Co Galway.
    http://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000634193#page/29

    I think it says:
    At Cluniff .. Jn(o) Bane_.Patr[k] .. Joan

    The only bit of that that I'm not sure of is Patr[k] - there are hundred's of people recorded as Patt or Pat in this register, but very few recorded as Patr[k].

    The schema is:
    At <townland> .. <fathers full name> .. <Child's given name>

    Bane is a popular surname in the area. Joan occurs quite a bit also. So this entry seems to have an extra field, maybe the father's full name is John Bane Patrick - or maybe the child's name is Patrick Joan


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