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Indifferent circumstances

  • 27-11-2019 9:33pm
    #1
    Hermy
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,299 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    In a trial Dublin in the 1830's a witness stated that someone died in indifferent circumstances.

    What would they mean by that - literally that the persons death was unremarkable or is it a euphemism for something else?

    The trial related to money owed and this persons death was not at issue.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



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  • #2
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,523 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    I would read it as being of limited financial means but not broke in that context.


  • #3
    Hermy
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,299 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    Yes, I thought it might be something like that.

    The individual concerned would have been described at one time as chief landholder so I suppose he had a fall from grace of some kind.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



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