your worst/funniest mis-transcriptions

[gennig]

I have spent many years trying to find one particular family and them changing their name from GRECO to GREGORY when they came to Australia didn't exactly help.

When I  found a 2nd marriage in Aus his mother was listed as Agnes ESTA his eventual BC revealed his mother was in fact Angelina PODESTA. 

Then came the 1881 census of Wales, I knew the family was there but couldn't locate them under any variant of GRECO.  Eventually I decided to search using just Angelina's first name and there they were in Newport Monmouth under the name of GLUCO OR GHEEN.  On checking the image the name certainly looks like GLUCO or GLECO.

I must say this family is still giving me grief.

Cheers
Genni

[Gerry]

Hi

I've had Walmsley as Walmcurley, Walmsly and Evans as Ennis.    Thanks to the many helpers who eventually tracked them down.

Gerry

[gazza]

This one I came across today made me chuckle
Birth place , "Oil of man"   

[1000xlch]

Hi Gerry

Definitely had Walmsleys from Lincolnshire mistranscribed, particularly the first name Arthur came out Ausetter!  Work that one out.  Village of Bubwith in Yorkshire came out Hesketh which is in Lancashire!

Are enumerators intelligent or just paid to put marks on paper? 
John

[Keziahemm]

My gg aunt Zaida has been transcribed as Lada - obviously after the car 

Susan

[Biker]

One of my Craze family members, born in Cutcombe, Somerset on the census but was creatively transcribed as Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, Cutcombe 

Jonathan

[TheWife]

I Spent nearly 9 months looking for my great great grandfather i was missinformed as to where he came from I was told the North of England (which initself was a challange. I gave up for a few weeks as banging my head against the wall so offered to do searches on Ancestry for other people and whilst doing a search for someone i opened a marriage page and lo and behold was my G G Grandfather his name Robert Garnet Crofts and he was down as Garret  garnit Croxt  the coincidence was just to much so i sent for the cert and was releived to find I had the right person lol. having found this information with his fathers name i then discovered he was not from the north of england but from Northamptonshire (i spent hundreds on searches) but at least i managed to find a new branch for my tree

[skyblue_scarlet]

my poor g.gma is named on the 1911 census (according to the website anyway) as    Fellas Kitchen!!!!!   now dont get me wrong her name is Zillah so the double L is correct.. I mean its clear enough to read or at least i thought so but come on does that sound like a typical Yorkshire name to you?

 

[SBZ5809]

I spent ages searching for a Louisa until someone else found her listed as Lawrence.

Another ancestor apparently lived in Gumblesby, Lincolnshire. Grimsby, actually!