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Offline sallyyorks

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Re: I wonder if he knew?
« Reply #27 on: Monday 27 August 18 00:47 BST (UK) »
A lodging-house in mid-19thC  Manchester, whose occupants were all Irish had "pig sty" written in address column in census enumerator's book.
Some "low" lodging-house keepers had "& brothel- keeper" as secondary occupation.

Some dwellings in the overcrowded industrial districts literally did have a 'pig sty' and it wasn't about 'the Irish'.
They are mentioned on numerous occasions in the sanitation reports of the 1830's and 40's, and a pig sty was not even the worst of it  :-\ . Not a read for the faint hearted.

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Re: I wonder if he knew?
« Reply #28 on: Monday 27 August 18 02:05 BST (UK) »
I have read some 'gems' some historical/religious attitude of the times, others just plain and simple nasty..... one parish record book in Lincolnshire I was scanning through to see if I could locate someone I was amazed at the number of nasty vindictive opinions written about the parishioners

This is a rare classic - the title is self-explanatory!

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=459879.0
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Re: I wonder if he knew?
« Reply #29 on: Monday 27 August 18 14:13 BST (UK) »
You don't mean she wrote idolatrous and it should have been adulterous lol.   :D
Yes, I think she just spelt the word wrong.

Wondering how a Roman Catholic priest, celibate by definition, could qualify as an adulterer ???

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Re: I wonder if he knew?
« Reply #30 on: Monday 27 August 18 15:25 BST (UK) »
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Wondering how a Roman Catholic priest, celibate by definition, could qualify as an adulterer.

Definition of adultery is voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and a person who is not their spouse.  So easy for an RC priest to be adulterous and many of them were.


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Re: I wonder if he knew?
« Reply #31 on: Tuesday 28 August 18 14:31 BST (UK) »
Why do you think he meant adulterous rather than idolatrous?  I think the latter is much more likely - just the 'normal' way to insult people of a different religious persuasion from yourself!

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Re: I wonder if he knew?
« Reply #32 on: Tuesday 28 August 18 14:34 BST (UK) »
I think that post was light hearted and not meant seriously - as probably the initial post.
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Re: I wonder if he knew?
« Reply #33 on: Tuesday 28 August 18 14:52 BST (UK) »


Thanks Heywood you totally get my sense of humour.  ::)

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Re: I wonder if he knew?
« Reply #34 on: Saturday 01 September 18 08:42 BST (UK) »
Perhaps so, but you have to be worshipping the RIGHT idols...

Just curious, but what are the "RIGHT idols"??

Malky

I think the "right idols" are the same idols as the person doing the judging. 

In Scotland even when I was growing up idolater was a used as an insult by Protestants against a Catholic.  Was used even more so historically.  You can see it in the design of Churches, very plain Presbyterian churches and more ornate Catholic ones.
Campbell, Dunn, Dickson, Fell, Forest, Norie, Pratt, Somerville, Thompson, Tyler among others

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Re: I wonder if he knew?
« Reply #35 on: Saturday 01 September 18 10:51 BST (UK) »


 " A so called idolatrous Roman Catholic Priest. Workhouse Chaplain".



I read this differently, because of the "so-called". Isn't this a tongue in cheek comment by the priest himself, and faithfully transcribed by Kate?