The term "Removed"?

[Ceehere2]

While looking through a Rhode Island City Directory for the year 1920, I
came across the term "removed".. For instance, a normal listing would
be..SMITH, John / clerk / boards 50 Main St..The next year it
states..SMITH, John / removed to NYC..
He then appears a few years later in the Directory..Any thoughts?
Claudia..

Ceeh...@webtv.net (Ceehere2)

[pa...@nospam.havemann.com]

Ceehere2 <Ceeh...@webtv.net> sez:

: While looking through a Rhode Island City Directory for the year 1920, I

It's a term once widely used to mean "moved" or "relocated." My
Webster's still defines it "remove" as "to change location,
station, or residence."

"Station," in this context, referred to one's social status;
you'll read about 'a change in [social] station' in novels of
the time.

In Mr. Smith's case, it probably just means he moved away for
a few years and then returned.

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Paul Havemann (pa...@nospam.havemann.com)
Havemann Family History: http://www.havemann.com/

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[Bob Gillis]

Ceehere2 wrote:
>
> While looking through a Rhode Island City Directory for the year 1920, I
> came across the term "removed".. For instance, a normal listing would
> be..SMITH, John / clerk / boards 50 Main St..The next year it
> states..SMITH, John / removed to NYC..
> He then appears a few years later in the Directory..Any thoughts?
> Claudia..
>

Unfortunately Claudia used a bad example. In her example he probably
moved to NYC for a better job or to get trained for a new job and then
returned to RI. Did his job description change? Did he leave a clerk
and return in insurance etc.

But was the first John Smith the second one?

bob gillis

Bob Gillis <rpgi...@bellatlantic.net>

[Robert Heiling]

Ceehere2 wrote:

> While looking through a Rhode Island City Directory for the year 1920, I
> came across the term "removed".. For instance, a normal listing would
> be..SMITH, John / clerk / boards 50 Main St..The next year it
> states..SMITH, John / removed to NYC..
> He then appears a few years later in the Directory..Any thoughts?

It's a term that is no longer used in the US, but is still used in UK and
elsewhere. It means the same as "moved", i.e. moved to NYC.

Bob

Robert Heiling <rh...@pacific.net>

[Audrey Bennett]

An old family history I have inherited (written in 1940) uses the term
"removed" to describe the act of moving away.

Audrey

>
>Ceehere2 wrote:
>
>> While looking through a Rhode Island City Directory for the year 1920, I
>> came across the term "removed".. For instance, a normal listing would
>> be..SMITH, John / clerk / boards 50 Main St..The next year it
>> states..SMITH, John / removed to NYC..

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"Audrey Bennett" <Audre...@msn.com>