Scots language
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW
Found in 44 Collections and/or Records:
5 x documents: notarial instruments relating to lands in Nether Carlowrie, west of Edinburgh, and in Invertiel, 1528-1566. Marks of 16th century Scottish notaries
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1747
Scope and Contents
5 x documents - notarial instruments - being:
Invertiel, 13 November 1528
Nether Carlowrie, 23 January 1529
Nether Carlowrie, 22 June 1535
Nether Carlowrie, 23 February 1540
Nether Carlowrie, 19 April 1566At the foot, each document bears a fine penned mark of a 16th century Scottish notary. Old folds, contemporary endorsements.
Dates:
1528-1566
2.1 Male, Single, 14 yrs and under, Dull and Backward, Physical illness or invalidism, April 1945
Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/2
Scope and Contents
"This boy has an IQ of 71. He is TB?, has had double pneumonia, off school for the last 4 months. Naturally backward aswell as backward through illness. Gentle and polite child but very backward. Neglected by mother who has to go out and work. Registrar: Mother a big strong woman, looks simple, she was herself illegitimate. Dr confirms - thsi boy has been ill a lot, but apart from that he is not normal and will be a handful. His brother is very impertinent. The children have no proper...
Dates:
Other: April 1945
12.3 Female, Widowed, Married, 45-54 yrs, High grade mental defective, February 1946
Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/11
Scope and Contents
"This woman is thoughtless, not very bright mentally, a loose old dame, went with soldiers. Use to send her husband on the bus for messages and then had a good time. PAO says this woman is hypochondrial, aye girning. Dr says they are both a bit peculiar. Nurse "peculiar, awful tongue, not just quite....". Dr confirms - she is MD."
Relatives in survey: husband 12.4, children 12.5, 12.42
Relatives in survey: husband 12.4, children 12.5, 12.42
Dates:
Other: February 1946
15.9 Male, Single, 14 yrs and under, High grade mental defective, January 1946
Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/14
Scope and Contents
"This boy is very slow and backward. He is illegitimate. His mother married again but her husband would not have him in the house, so he lives with his grandmother. Clean and well looked after. No. P.A. [Male informant] says his grandmother is a "bit of a rag" - flighty. Flies off the handle. [Male informant] says they are decent people. Grandmother looks glaiket but is all right."
Dates:
Other: January 1946
20.1 Female, Single, 14 yrs and under, Dull and backward, Physical illness or invalidism, February 1947
Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/19
Scope and Contents
'Pituitary disorder, massive for her age, dull, asthmatic, adipose, genitalia undeveloped. Father a shepherd. Mother OK, "a wailey kind o' creature, a wee bit below normal" - Inspector.'
Dates:
Other: February 1947
2.15 Female, Single, 35-44 yrs, Dull and Backward, July 1945
Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/2
Scope and Contents
"This woman is called "glaikit" by Dr. She is a big strong woman, looks simple. She works as a farm servant. She is illegitimate, her father was a coachman. Housing, 2 roomed lower part of a cottage, damp and tiny, clean. Family relationships inharmonious, much noise and quarrelling. She has not been able to bring her children up properly or to give them the attention they require as she has been out to work all the time."
Relatives in survey: son 2.1
Relatives in survey: son 2.1
Dates:
Other: July 1945
2.58 Male, Single, 14 yrs and under, Dull and backward, March 1947
Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/2
Scope and Contents
"IQ 81 exempt from control exam. Father a shepherd, mother a bit "glaikit"."
Relatives in survey: 2.50, 2.49, 2.47, 2.48 mother 2.59 father 2.46
Relatives in survey: 2.50, 2.49, 2.47, 2.48 mother 2.59 father 2.46
Dates:
Other: March 1947
2.59 Female, Married, 45-54 yrs, Dull and backward, March 1947
Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/2
Scope and Contents
"This woman is described as glaikit, the dullest of her family."
Relatives in survey: children 2.50, 2.58, 2.49, 2.47, 2.48 husband 2.46
Relatives in survey: children 2.50, 2.58, 2.49, 2.47, 2.48 husband 2.46
Dates:
Other: March 1947
36.5 Female, Married, 35-44 yrs, Dull and backward, March 1947
Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/35
Scope and Contents
"A dirty trachly creature. She had three illegitimate children."
Relatives in survey: Children 36.4, 36.59
Relatives in survey: Children 36.4, 36.59
Dates:
Other: March 1947
39.6 Female, Single, 14 yrs and under, High grade mental defective, July 1947
Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/39
Scope and Contents
"Looks vacant, grins, full of antics, just silly behaviour. "Glaiket". Only in Infants I."
Relatives in survey: sibling 39.5
Relatives in survey: sibling 39.5
Dates:
Other: July 1947