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Offence decryption

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  • 24-02-2015 5:12pm
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    pinkypinky
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,616 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    I'm looking at a prison register (all women) in Mountjoy, 1909.

    Can anyone tell me what the bottom offence means?
    I've put in some extra lines to help with handwriting.
    The words are quite clear but not the meaning!

    Thanks

    Genealogy Forum Mod



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    Arsemageddon
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    It looks like an abbreviation for profane and obscene language


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    Waitsian
    Registered Users Posts: 1,706 ✭✭✭Waitsian


    Arsemageddon wrote: »
    It looks like an abbreviation for profane and obscene language

    A prison sentence for cursing. Imagine. Bloody hell! :eek:


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    P. Breathnach
    Registered Users Posts: 12,089 ✭✭✭✭P. Breathnach


    mod9maple wrote: »
    A prison sentence for cursing. Imagine. Bloody hell! :eek:
    That's a week in clink for you!


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    Jellybaby1
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    The good old days, where have they gone?


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    pedroeibar1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,108 ✭✭✭pedroeibar1


    It probably was just fishwife language, name calling. No drunk & disorderly mentioned. No lewd behaviour/language mentioned (a la Marquise de Dampierre). Constant niggles with neighbours got too much, row broke out. Possibly a bit of a harridan.:) (who could imagine it!) Could have been worse. Even Bono's use of the F word got dragged to the US Supreme Court a few years ago - google the 'fleeting expletive'.


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    kildarejohn
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    Somewhat off topic, but one thing I noticed when looking at prison records for men for that time period was that the weights shown were mostly quite low, under 12 stone, presumably because of poverty. Did the same apply to women?


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    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Just look at any old photographs, very few heavy people in them. They didn't have takeaways or fizzy drinks. A picnic in the 1950's when I was a child would have meant tea, and egg sandwiches!


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    CeannRua
    Closed Accounts Posts: 470 ✭✭CeannRua


    kildarejohn wrote: »
    Somewhat off topic, but one thing I noticed when looking at prison records for men for that time period was that the weights shown were mostly quite low, under 12 stone, presumably because of poverty. Did the same apply to women?

    You need to look at height as well. People were not so tall in the past.


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