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Re: Excuse me while I rant about....
« Reply #18 on: Thursday 22 February 07 02:19 GMT (UK) »
I have Bell trancrsibed as Bull, Ball, Balles, Beales, Well, Hell, Nell, Gell etc. Do I need to go on? The worst I have seen is Bright transcribed as White and Broit. Maybe the transcribers' regional accent comes into play here? A Londoner may say Bright but someone with a Jordie accent would pronounce it Broyit. ( as in Boy It,  but with an R.)
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Bell, Brodsworth, Felkirk, Wath-Upon-Dearne, Yorkshire<br />Bright, Eyre, Jessop, Wilkinson, Sheffield, Yorkshire<br />Fielding, Lound Retford, Lincolnshire and Sheffield, Yorkshire<br />Law,  Felkirk, Wath-Upon-Dearne, Yorkshire<br />Lister, Flockton, Wath-Upon-Dearne, Yorkshire<br />Mitchell, Langsett, Nr. Penistone Yorkshire.<br />Walton, Cudworth, Barnsley Yorkshire.<br />Stanger, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Yorkshire.<br />Gratwick, London and Kent<br />Fahy, Limerick, Southern Ireland

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Re: Excuse me while I rant about....
« Reply #19 on: Thursday 22 February 07 02:32 GMT (UK) »
Just this week on Ancestry I have found that my Alexandrina DUNBAR had turned into a SWAN  ::) ::)
Havn't quite fathomed how they did that yet.......

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« Reply #20 on: Thursday 22 February 07 02:35 GMT (UK) »
Have just remembered another of mine - Zachariah Tricker - he turned up as Bracknard Triack  ::) ::)

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Re: Excuse me while I rant about....
« Reply #21 on: Thursday 22 February 07 10:49 GMT (UK) »
I know I'm always ready to knock Ancestry and their transcriptions, but I've got to admit it's not always their fault.
I have Mary Ann in Portsmouth, married as Byles, on her daughter's birth certificate as formerly Bayles, and baptised as Boyles. I suppose a lot depends on how the person said the name, and how the person writing it down was used to spelling it.
This is very clear in the case of Mary Ann's grandson, born in Portsea as Walter Harmsworth Moore.
Married in Reading as Walter Harmsworth Moore, because he knew how to spell his own name, but his death reported by his brother in law who was so obviously a Reading man with the infamous Reading accent who gave the name Walter 'Armsworth Moore. I had to smile at that one. :)
Bartlett/Henley on Thames
Caponhurst/Buckinghamshire and?
Denchfield/North Marston/Bucks
Webb/Winchester
Mathias/Pembroke/Pembroke Dock
John/Pembroke/Pembroke Dock
Smith/Portsmouth/Portsea
Purchas/Bucks and?
Olliffe/Bucks

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« Reply #22 on: Sunday 20 June 10 20:30 BST (UK) »
http://www.kenthistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=6807.0

Hello, if you log on to the above url, you will see a photo of a monument to the Stutely family in Sheerness.

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« Reply #23 on: Sunday 20 June 10 22:20 BST (UK) »
Hello richdean, welcome to RootsChat :)

Thank you for that link, I'll keep a note of it. I haven't found any of my Stutelys in Sheerness yet, but it's quiet possible I will.

I now have 30 variations of Stutely courtesy of Ancestry mistranscriptions ;D


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KENT:
Stutely - Wittersham & Stone
Padgham - Wittersham
Wanstall - Northbourne
Taylor - Ringwould & Ash
Skinner - Deal
Bushell - Walmer
Spain - Walmer
Also
Schloss - Poland, Nottingham, Massachusetts & New Zealand.
Cohen - Birmingham

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« Reply #24 on: Wednesday 23 June 10 22:13 BST (UK) »
I think I've told this forum before about my Amy Buckle who was transcribed as KING BACKLE.

It was a page trawl that turned her up, not a search through the transcriptions...... ;)
Pay, Kent. 
Barham, Kent. 
Cork(e), Kent. 
Cooley, Kent.
Barwell, Rutland/Northants/Greenwich.
Cotterill, Derbys.
Van Steenhoven/Steenhoven/Hoven, Nord Brabant/Belgium/East London.
Kesneer Belgium/East London
Burton, East London.
Barlow, East London
Wayling, East London
Wade, Greenwich/Brightlingsea, Essex.
Thorpe, Brightlingsea, Essex
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