1940s: (The Commute from Downstairs to Upstairs — For Other Women Their Commute from Downstairs to Upstairs Was Quick but Often Unaccounted For and Subject t…

1940s: (The Commute from Downstairs to Upstairs — For Other Women Their Commute from Downstairs to Upstairs Was Quick but Often Unaccounted For and Subject to the Whims of Any Person’s Desire, These Women Lumped into Their Employer’s Household Data Whether They Felt Affinity for These Families or Not — Their Statistical Kinship Only Further Obscuring the Archival Record Erasing Women Whose Familial Networks Were Not Recognized by Catholic Parish Records Because of Their Household Beliefs Birth Contexts or Partnering Choices): For other women, their commute from downstairs to upstairs was quick but often unaccounted for and subject to the whims of any person’s desire. These women were lumped into their employer’s household data whether they felt affinity for these families or not. Their statistical kinship only further obscured the archival record, erasing women whose familial networks were not recognized by Catholic parish records because of their household beliefs, birth contexts, or partnering choices — the census made them members of families they served, not families they loved, the archive reproducing the erasure that the household enacted.