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Title: Lydia
Post by: andreabro on Thursday 17 January 19 19:19 GMT (UK)

Hi 
I need help with deciphering the surname of Lydia please.
I'm still stuck on this brick wall, and have been for over 10 years.
All help appreciated

Title: Re: Lydia
Post by: AlanBoyd on Thursday 17 January 19 19:28 GMT (UK)

Peascod?

Title: Re: Lydia
Post by: arthurk on Thursday 17 January 19 19:29 GMT (UK)

Looks like Ruscoe to me.

The enumerator seems to finish some words/names with a curl going upwards and back over the letters - see Richard Cliffe, about halfway down the opposite page. And the initial 'R' is the same.

For those who want to look at the whole page, it's the 1841 census for Sound in Cheshire - HO107/118/26 fo4 p10.

Title: Re: Lydia
Post by: Bookbox on Thursday 17 January 19 19:31 GMT (UK)

I would suggest Ruscoe too.

Title: Re: Lydia
Post by: andreabro on Thursday 17 January 19 19:43 GMT (UK)

Hi
Thanks all.  It has been transcribed as Roscoe, But I cannot find any other reference to this person so was thinking it may have been miss transcribed.

Andrea

Title: Re: Lydia
Post by: arthurk on Thursday 17 January 19 20:27 GMT (UK)

Don't forget if you're looking for her elsewhere that an age given as 15 in the 1841 census could mean anything from 15 to 19. I see she was born in Cheshire, so that narrows it down a bit....

Title: Re: Lydia
Post by: DrDude45 on Wednesday 23 January 19 18:44 GMT (UK)

maybe this helps?

Ruseau perhaps? this could be a misspelling of Rousseau.

Just my two cents.

Title: Re: Lydia
Post by: lancs-lassie on Wednesday 23 January 19 19:02 GMT (UK)

Could it end in “ead”? Plumstead?

Title: Re: Lydia
Post by: Gadget on Wednesday 23 January 19 19:26 GMT (UK)

Another for Ruscoe - with a flourish on the e

Gadget

Title: Re: Lydia
Post by: shanreagh on Wednesday 23 January 19 21:05 GMT (UK)

Been recorded as Lydia Ruscoe on the census record at Family Search.