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Messages - Yvonne Donnellon

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Maryhill address and surname?
« on: Thursday 01 December 22 22:55 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you all!

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Maryhill address and surname?
« on: Thursday 01 December 22 18:04 GMT (UK)  »
Hi

This is from a wedding record, can you tell me what the address is in the left box and the surmane under Sarah Cullen is please?

Thanks in advance

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Archie's middle name
« on: Saturday 12 November 22 14:08 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you both, now I don't know much about the Scottish naming traditions, is this likely to be a maiden name of a grandmother?  Archie's mother was McAdam.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Archie's middle name
« on: Saturday 12 November 22 12:53 GMT (UK)  »
Hopefully this is an easy one, thanks in advance  ;D

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Cause of death
« on: Saturday 05 November 22 12:07 GMT (UK)  »
Looking through the old newspapers for "oppression", there are many articles using it in the sense that we use it today, but there are also many instances of "oppression of the brain".  A few examples:

-Lots of ads for "cures" for dizziness, headaches, and oppression of the brain.

-A 14 mo. old child died of "oppression of the brain", which they blame on his mother giving him some kind of cordial.

- many articles about excessive heat causing heat oppression affecting the brain

- excessive drinking (of alcohol) causes oppression of the brain

Etc, etc.....

Although I have now read a ton of articles on it, there does not seem to be a "definite" meaning to it, other than being a catch-all term for "something is wrong in the brain".  The term seems to appear much more frequently in the 1840's and 50's, but is still around in the 70's and 80's. Presumably as medicine advanced, specific causes started getting their own name, and moved out of the catch-all phrase.

Perhaps, by writing just "oppression", it was understood it meant oppression of the brain, a term now lost to time.

Thank you! that was quite a comprehensive response and I'm impressed that you thought of using newspapers of that time as a source.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Cause of death
« on: Saturday 05 November 22 12:05 GMT (UK)  »
There was no Medical Attendant, the death seems to have been registered in the normal way rather than by an Official, suicide seems unlikely.

Have you found anything on where the death occurred & the distance from there to the address of the informant Ellen Creagh?

Do you know who Ellen Creagh was...maybe a relation?

Annie

Ellen was her youngest daughter and she lived just yards away in the next street.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Cause of death
« on: Saturday 05 November 22 12:04 GMT (UK)  »
I'm of the same opinion as Elwyn. I note that the informant is described as 'present at death'.

Alas, note that Dublin has suggested that Oppression  can be interpreted as Depression

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I think it means depression, as in an oppression of spirits.


Gadget

Julia (my 3 x Great Grandmother) lost her husband the year before so this is very possible.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Cause of death
« on: Friday 04 November 22 22:02 GMT (UK)  »
Do you think they mean depression possibly ending in suicide?  This is a Irish Catholic community in 1872.

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1872/020742/7277058.pdf

If it had been suicide, it would say that on the medical certificate, and the informant would have been the local coroner rather than a neighbour or relation as here.

So how do you die of oppression?  I'm wondering if this is a fudge because committing suicide is a sin as a Catholic and potentially could have prevented her from being buried in sacred ground ?

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Cause of death
« on: Friday 04 November 22 12:08 GMT (UK)  »
That's what I saw but I don't understand?  Do you think they mean depression possibly ending in suicide?  This is a Irish Catholic community in 1872.

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1872/020742/7277058.pdf

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