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    Hello,

    If August 16 1902 was a Saturday and a newspaper stated that an event happened on Thursday of last week, what would the date be?

    The reason I ask is that I'm not sure if the paper means the Thursday just gone or the Thursday of the week before.

    I just want to be really certain.

    Danny
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    I'd say it would be the 14th August Danny... thats what I understand it to be.
    Julie
    They're coming to take me away haha hee hee..........

    .......I find dead people

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    • #3
      Thank you Julie. The reason I ask is that the 'Thursday of last week' is the day my great great uncle was ordained and so I want to put in the date in my research.

      Danny
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      • #4
        I've just read a bit more of the article that states that On Sunday he read his first mass at St Leo's church at 10oclock. If the paper date was Saturday 16 1902 then it looks like it must have been the week before which I think would make the date Thursday the 07 August. Does that sound about right?

        Danny
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        • #5
          ahhh right, so if it gives that date as the previous sunday when he did his first mass, then it would be the thursday prior to that then. flipping confusing isnt it?
          Julie
          They're coming to take me away haha hee hee..........

          .......I find dead people

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          • #6
            I'm going to go with Thursday the 7th of August 1902 as the date. He completed his studies at the Seminary in Baltimore in June and set straight off for Denver where he was ordained so it seems to fit.

            Danny
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            • #7
              Originally posted by quiffdo View Post
              I'm going to go with Thursday the 7th of August 1902 as the date. He completed his studies at the Seminary in Baltimore in June and set straight off for Denver where he was ordained so it seems to fit.

              Danny
              I think that that seems more likely. Until quite recently, secular weeks were run the same way as Church weeks - which always begin on a Sunday :"The First Day of the Week", because of the wording of the account of the first Easter. Secular diaries changed that, so that Week-to-view over two pages could have five big days, and Saturday and Sunday would be crammed together into the space of a single day, being regarded as less important in the context of business meetings.

              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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