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From: "Kathy Hill" <kathys(a)post.com>
> What would a person who has been an Excavator about 1845 also a
> Contractor / Journeyman and in Crumlin 1861 census a Carpenter be doing
> by way of work there?
There was a need for carpenters because as the population expanded they had
to be housed and the houses had to be built.
Now that leads me to another question. If you were born in Crumlin
back
in 1860 would it have been a home birth. When did ladies start going to
hospital to have their children born in preference to a Midwife calling to
your home.
Ladies would have a doctor on call and a lying in nurse or two for the birth
at home. The wives of Journeyman carpenters would have their mother or a
neighbour or if they were lucky (or unlucky) a midwife. The child would be
born at home. It wasn't until after WW2 when the National Health Service
first started that ordinary women went to hospital for the birth of their
children - usually the first child and if that went ok the second and all
subsequent children would be born at home.
Ann Macey