Terrible Handwriting!

[MarinaB]

Can someone decipher this handwriting from the 1851 census? The name of the 2 year old daughter looks like LAUSSED? but I've never come across this name  .

[angi0]

what area is the census from i will try to locate a birth??

angie

[liverpool annie]

I think that name and Thomas were crossed out and rewritten further down - still can't read it though!! 

Annie

[angi0]

hi looked at births from 1847 to 1850 nothing remotely similar maybe one of the births registered as Just female can't make it out either

Angie

[MarinaB]

Angie

The census is from Clerkenwell, Middx.

Thomas (4mths old) is my Great Grandfather. I can't find him again until 1881 where he is married to Isabel and still living in the area (Islington).

Marina

[mirl]

Hi Marina,

Took a long time over this.

Couldn't find any of then in 1861 or 1871. Found Thomas jnr in 1881 as you had found but this sheds no light.

Looking at the full page in 1851, the "ss" in the mothers place of birth Essex is the same as the"ss" in the daughters name.

To me it really looks like Laussed, but I can find no other reference to a name such as this.

Cheers, Colin

[griz]

 Re  The Wife Ann? and daughter 'Mary Ann' the double 'n' looks like a 'u'. So maybe the 'u' is not a 'u' in Laussed.

The first letter "l" for the crossed out Laussed also looks like an S used in 'son'. ?

Looks as if 'Mary Ann'  dau.  was missed out, so the enumerator re-wrote the following names. the second version of 'Laussed' is just as puzzling.

[Jones the Search]

Looks like LAUFRED to me
Girls name usually South American.(Try Yahoo Search.)

This site has it as a male name.
http://www.kabalarians.com/male/laufred.htm

Maybe it's a family name, what was her mothers maiden name?

This site will try to decipher it for you just send them your request with the link to this posting on Rootschat so they too can have a gander
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                                     Patricia

[loo]

I was going to say Laufred too, just from looking at it.  Could also be Lanfred, which somehow strikes me as more English.
I know it's a strange-sounding name for a girl, but I have one named Clarence in my tree, and there's no doubt at all about her name or her gender.