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    Could someone tell me the disability of John Poynter in the 1871 census record.

    - Ancestry.co.uk

    thanks for looking.

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    Hi Oliver


    I wouldn't like to swear to it but I think it says "Sun stroke":xmas_confused:



    Hopefully someone else will come along and explain soon
    Barbara

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    • #3
      I think it says sun stroke. Not sure exactly what this is, but my gt grandfather Charles' 2nd father-in-law suffered from this, and had bouts of insanity. He was briefly a suspect for the Jack the Ripper murders and ended his days in an asylum.
      ~ with love from Little Nell~
      Chowns, Dunt, Emms, Mealing, Purvey & Smoothy

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      • #4
        I'd guess that "Sun stroke" must be a daytime version, equivalent to "lunacy" at night?

        I think that porphyria is exacerbated by sunlight - will have to go and google - and there's a school of thought that says that that was what King George (of "The Madness of ...") suffered from.

        Christine
        Researching: BENNETT (Leics/Birmingham-ish) - incl. Leonard BENNETT in Detroit & Florida ; WARR/WOR, STRATFORD & GARDNER/GARNAR (Oxon); CHRISTMAS, RUSSELL, PAFOOT/PAFFORD (Hants); BIGWOOD, HAYLER/HAILOR (Sussex); LANCASTER (Beds, Berks, Wilts) - plus - COCKS (Spitalfields, Liverpool, Plymouth); RUSE/ROWSE, TREMEER, WADLIN(G)/WADLETON (Devonport, E Cornwall); GOULD (S Devon); CHAPMAN, HALL/HOLE, HORN (N Devon); BARRON, SCANTLEBURY (Mevagissey)...

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