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Offline Josephine

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Re: Funniest mistranscription?
« Reply #27 on: Friday 02 March 07 20:13 GMT (UK) »
LOL, China!

 ;D

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Re: Funniest mistranscription?
« Reply #28 on: Sunday 04 March 07 16:38 GMT (UK) »
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"!

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Josephine
England: Barnett; Beaumont; Christy; George; Holland; Parker; Pope; Salisbury
Scotland: Currie; Curror; Dobson; Muir; Oliver; Pryde; Turnbull; Wilson
Ireland: Carson; Colbert; Coy; Craig; McGlinchey; Riley; Rooney; Trotter; Waters/Watters