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18-08-2016, 10:54 AM #11
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18-08-2016, 11:09 AM #12
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18-08-2016, 11:21 AM #13
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Vulcan XH558 - “Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”
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18-08-2016, 11:27 AM #14
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apologies. So an alternative interpretation might be what ?
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18-08-2016, 11:42 AM #15
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As there is no written reason given beside the crossing through, there is no definitive 'alternative interpretation'. We can only guess. It could just be that one of the census officials didn't think that putting their husband's occupation in front of 'wife' was a correct occupation.
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18-08-2016, 12:01 PM #16
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18-08-2016, 12:35 PM #17
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18-08-2016, 1:33 PM #18
You can't generalise. That's like saying that all dressmakers were "open fruit pies" just because it's known that "dressmaker" was sometimes a euphemism. If they all were - who made the clothes?
A lot of those sailor's wives were exactly that - check the next census and their husband was possibly home. I have always thought that the crossing out was because "xxx's wife" (you get other husband's occupations - eg ag lab's, doctor's, plowman's from my own OPS) was not on the census approved list of occupations. Some of them probably weren't of course.
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18-08-2016, 3:36 PM #19
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I think I have this notion that women were such downtrodden, second class citizens that they existed only as adjuncts to their husbands. The death certificate of one of my great-grandmothers describes her as 'widow of retired medical practitioner'.
Back on the subject of divorce I think I also have this idea that women wanted to get rid of all reminders of their husbands after a divorce, including his surname.
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18-08-2016, 8:14 PM #20
A reason to keep the name of her ex husband - Prestige - maybe she thought it gave her benefits to be known by the name of her ex. and who was going to dispute her married status.
Reverting back to her maiden name would also leave her children with a different surname to hers and though we think nothing of that these days back then it would be a situation for discussion amongst those who had not known her when married.
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