Welcome, Guest. Please login or register for free.
Did you miss your activation email?
Friday 04 December 09 19:07 UTC (UK)
Welcome Home Help Surnames Library Shop Search Login Register

+  RootsChat.Com
|-+  General
| |-+  The Common Room
| | |-+  The Lighter Side (Moderator: Boongie Pam)
| | | |-+  Mad Parsons .. now I Understand
« previous next »
Pages: [1] Print
Author Topic: Mad Parsons .. now I Understand  (Read 220 times)
joboy
RootsChat Veteran
*****
Posts: 924


I really am
Mad Parsons .. now I Understand
« on: Wednesday 05 August 09 02:37 UTC (UK) »
In the 1844 Report of the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy at http://www.studymore.org.uk/4_09.htm it says;
..................................................................................................
"had been more than confirmed by the Report of the Metropolitan Commissioners of Lunacy, who stated that in many workhouses there were confined a large number of absolutely dangerous lunatics.

The commissioners gave instances. In the Redruth Union workhouse there were forty-one insane parsons, including six idiots, and several violent lunatics; in the workhouse of the Bath Union there were twenty insane persons, including a dangerous woman; in that of the Leicester Union there were thirty mad parsons, including three males and nine females who were dangerous lunatics; and in the Birmingham Union workhouse there were seventy-one case of insanity, many of which were described as of a very grave case.
.......................................................................................................................................................
Fancy ... no less than 71 mad parsons ............. no wonder we have so many mistranscriptions ... was it the altar wine?
joboy
Logged
Gill Australia
Bell Australia
Harding(e) Australia
MarieC
RootsChat Marquessate
********
Posts: 3304


In Queensland, Oz


WWW
Re: Mad Parsons .. now I Understand
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 05 August 09 09:00 UTC (UK) »
 Grin Grin Grin joboy!  Well said!

One of my ggrandfathers was an Anglican priest - Irish, worked in England for awhile before he emigrated to Australia.  He couldn't even get his own family's details right in his registers, even his wife's birthplace!!!! Shocked Shocked  Pity help anyone else who is trying to trace their families through his registers!  Grin

I don't think he was mad - just had a supreme disregard for paperwork and accuracy.  There's a family story that it was his wife who kept him relatively on the rails, stopped him from going completely off with the fairies!

MarieC
Logged
Martins in London and Wales, Lockwoods in Yorkshire, Hartleys in London, Lichfield and Brighton, Hubands and Smiths in Ireland, Bentleys in London and Yorkshire, Denhams in Somerset, Scoles in London, Meyers in London, Cooks in Northumberland
Pages: [1] Print 
« previous next »


[Copyright] [Shrink Link] [About Us] [Terms of Use]
All Census Lookups are Crown Copyright, National Archives for academic and non-commercial research purposes only
RootsChat.com cannot be held responsible directly or indirectly for the messages or content posted by others. Inline images in messages are the copyright of the respective linked sites.
RootsChat.com, Europa House, Bury, Lancashire, BL9 5BT

In loving memory of Eric George Davies, 1934-2009, the father of RootsChat.com































Powered by SMF 1.0.7 | SMF © 2006-2009, Simple Machines LLC
1.054:22