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AT HOME ?
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Suzanne | Report | 21 May 2009 20:09 |
ON SEVERAL OF MY CENSAS RECORDS I HAVE FAMILY MEMBERS WITH AT HOME LISTED IN THE OCCUPATION SECTION CAN ANY ONE TELL ME WERE THEY PREGNANT OR DID THEY HAVE A HANDYCAP THEY ARE ALL FEMALE BETWEEN 18 AND 24 |
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Kate | Report | 21 May 2009 20:36 |
That is curious - most of the "at home" notes I've seen against people have been written against what we'd probably call nursery school aged children now (the sort of 2-5 years range). ie. they were at home because they were too little to be at school or working. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 21 May 2009 21:53 |
I have seen "At Home" against daughters above the age of 14 or 15 ....... and have assumed that it means either they are helping Momma with the younger children, or the family was wealthy enough that daughters didn't have to work and were just waiting to get married. |
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Kate | Report | 21 May 2009 22:05 |
Do you think she could have gone to the workhouse just to give birth? I think a lot of very poor women did that if they couldn't afford a midwife (in the pre-NHS days I imagine midwives - formally trained and untrained - would have made at least a little money through their work) because the infirmaries attached to the workhouses were sometimes the only place they could get free health care. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 21 May 2009 22:17 |
In most cases, the only medical care would have been at the local workhouse ........ the doctor or midwife would have had to be paid if they came to the house, and hospitals were expensive. |
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Dianne | Report | 22 May 2009 09:03 |
I had always assumed 'at home' to be either the above reason of staying at home to help mother out, or a polite way of saying unemployed. |