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The highlighted bit of this scrawl was transcribed as "grandson" but a quick look at the ages of the household shows this to be impossible. Judging by a capital "J" lower down the page, I've taken this to be "Journeyman"

The "Long S" usually foxes the more inexperienced transcriber - Rufsell for Russell etc - but is understandable, as are, indeed, many transcription errors.

My biggest bugbear is that unwillingness of major sites to admitted transcriptions were wrong in the first place and keep the entries indexed under the original transcriptions, even when they are clearly wrong. The sites' users have gone to much trouble to bother sending in corrections and can provide "chapter and verse" as to why corrections are necessary.

They might suggest there is an alternative - but why not get rid of the totally misleading version?

Some of the sites are also unwilling to accept the version provided by the transcriber. I volunteered to transcribe for one site and was given "modern" registers of marriage - those where the brides' and grooms' surnames appear not only in the box completed by the registrar, but also as their own signatures. I looked at both (and also the registrars' entry of the fathers' names) and my transcriptions were "bounced" if I chose their own signatures (often very clear signatures) over the scrawl of the registrar which could be interpreted differently.

Dear Moira

Sorry - can't help with this one. The marriage date for Hazel (1968) is possible with a 1944 date for the marriage of Ernest and Ivy but.... I too can't find any birth record for Hazel or Martin (even outside the UK with current on-line records) but suppose Ernest was a serviceman in, say, Germany, immediately after the War, then it is possible that Martin and Hazel weren't born in Britain - although how you find that out if you are no close to the family, I don't know

Good luck
Peter

Alas, no - but thanks for the suggestion