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General => The Common Room => The Lighter Side => Topic started by: BettyofKent on Friday 16 February 07 14:02 GMT (UK)
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My funniest mistranscription (so far!) is
Jemina Crumpler becomes Fanina Oompler (1891 census)
Can anyone beat that?
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Betty
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No Betty, I can't top that one. But on a copy of the passenger list for the ship I came to Australia on in 1950, one of the Melbourne addresses for a passenger was given as Foot Spray. The suburb is actually Footscray.
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Irene
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My Great Grandfather was a Horsebreaker by profession The transcription has altered it to Housebreaker! I don't think he would have put that down on a census return do you!?
Linda
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;D ;D my name is fannina oompla, i am a housebreaker and i live in footspray! ;D ;D
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;D ;D my name is fannina oompla, i am a housebreaker and i live in footspray! ;D ;D
and my baptism was before I was born! ::) ::) ::)
....dee
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I found one like that dee, & one of a man married three times after his death! He didn't Rest in Peace ;D ;D
Betty
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I had one who's christian name was Caroline, transcribed as PARDON. ;D ;D
This one was on a recent thread posted by cbCaroline, place of birth Chooks Berry, she found out it was in fact Tewkesbury ;D ;D
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Not a mistranscription, but I had one in 1901 where a Old Cleeve, Somerset was recorded as "Oakleaf, Somerset."
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Hi
I found Snotterfield in Warwickshire - should be Snitterfield and also sometimes mistranscibed as Snifferfield.
Lemon
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Hi all,
Some of my ancestors lived in a place called Bog Rotten!!
Sounds an awful place to be.
Cheers
MM
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In 1901, my gt grandad and family were living at Sitterton in Dorset (near Bere Regis) . The proper name of the hamlet actually has another letter, but it has been commonly dropped since Victorian times by the more prudish among us (including me just now :D)
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I saw this mistranscription tonight:
1870 census, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Charles Engman, 6, born On Atlanlie Decan
The image actually says he was born "on Atlantic Ocean".
Regards,
Josephine
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It still happens today, if the content is not understood. Not too long ago I saw
this as an Email autoreply,..Tomb it may concern....'
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Hi
Yes I saw the Chooks bury one - love that also seen today a 75 year old female in 1871 occupation - accountant ! original says annuitant (not much difference )
Debbie
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Not that funny but I am in the index as Mavis not Marie heaven help my descendants!!! :)
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In 1901, my gt grandad and family were living at Sitterton in Dorset (near Bere Regis) . The proper name of the hamlet actually has another letter, but it has been commonly dropped since Victorian times by the more prudish among us (including me just now
Ah, yes. Good old Slitterton...
meles ;)
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That is even worse than the original name of Nottingham, which was Snotingham... :o
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Looking at a early census of Hastings, Sussex
St Mary in the Cattle!!!
Webby
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My great grandfather, Thomas Cook, in 1851 Census, written as Thos., with the 'S' in tiny letters, has been transcribed as Pho.
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Not a mistranscription but a funny occupation. In the 1851 census for Hexham there is a John Black whose occupation is "smuggler of Whisky" and his wife Jane is a "smugglers wife"
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An address in Worcester was writeen as Wondertidings, for 1 The Tything.
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Hi all,
Dunno about funniest, but on my Gt Grandparents marriage cert in 1917, there were two mistranscriptions.
My Gt Grandfathers rank or profession was mistranscribed as 'Soldier, R.F.G', this was of course the R.F.A (Royal Field Artillery!)
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My Gt Grandmothers residence at time of marriage was mistranscribed as 'Northern Leyland', which was actually Northumberland!
These mistranscriptions were made in 1997 when i originally requested the certificate!
Regards
David
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My gt.aunt Tilly (Matilda) appears on 1901 census as Mubilou and another family apparently lived in the parish of St. Elements (St Clements), Nottingham (Notting Hill), London; for the cherry on the cake their surname was also mistranscribed.........they were none too easy to find!
I just hope it's not the same people transcribing the 1911 census.
Nanny Jan
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Apparently Shillington in Bedfordshire used to have an extra T in it, and in exactly the worst place...
Cheers,
China
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oh yes, 3x gt grandfather Jonathon Sparke was mistranscribed as a Jonathon Spook - I got spooky ancestors!
Sallysmum
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I can't prove this is a mistranscription because I can't view the original, but it sure looks like one to me:
In Ancestry's U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946:
Name: Jamekrm Mru KK M Seifert
Regards,
Josephine
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Good old Jamekrm Mru KK M! Often wondered what happened to him!
C
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LOL, China!
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Regards,
Josephine
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I've just seen the surname Oliver mistranscribed as Clouse in the 1871 census of Scotland transcription online at Ancestry.
I only know it's them because of some info a cousin sent to me or I would never have figured it out. And if by some miracle I had figured it out, I would have started wondering if my Scottish Olivers were in fact German Klauses! :o
And it looks like they've transcribed Galashiels as "Goberhids"!
Regards,
Josephine