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Offline gazza

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your worst/funniest mis-transcriptions
« on: Friday 10 December 04 23:36 GMT (UK) »
Here are 2 for my ancestors,
Glistte camfas   ,should have been castle camps!
St Houser,    should have been st osyths.

No wonder I had trouble looking them up :)

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Re: your worst/funniest mis-transcriptions
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 11 December 04 00:25 GMT (UK) »
I posted this once before, but it still irks me...The 1881 Census had Jane Birchall listed twice. Once with her mother Frances Birchall...age was 8...once with her sister Arabella Birchall Speakman, age 17. Come to find out...the one with Frances should have been James Cooper Birchall.
If he ever saw he was listed as his sister and as a female to boot...he probably ended up with a complex.

No wonder I couldn't figure out who was who with the family. Talk about typos, misprints and hearing difficulties. LOL!!!


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Birchall, Cooper, Kearns, Hope, Desmarias
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Re: your worst/funniest mis-transcriptions
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 11 December 04 09:57 GMT (UK) »
I have a few mis-transcriptions.

A relative recorded as being born in Offaly, Ireland when the original, quite clearly, says Kings Cliffe, Northamptonshire.

And one that makes me sad. On the 1901 census for Belfast Northern Ireland, my father, Samuel McDonald, is recorded as his brother William! Underneath is William again. Why is it always the one you want most that is missing......

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Fisher, Pitts, Lucas, Emmit, Keal, Bennett, Maddock, Jackson, Pidd, Lincolnshire <br />Bullock, Read, White, Gloucestershire.<br />Shepherd, Foyle, Crowter, Green, Wiltshire<br />Strickland, Fisher, Butterworth, Brown, Northhamptonshire<br />Shepherd, Bullock, Waterhouse, Lancashire
Fisher, Goodwin, Rutland
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Re: your worst/funniest mis-transcriptions
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 11 December 04 16:16 GMT (UK) »
It's just disturbing that the enumerators could be that far off.  :(

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Re: your worst/funniest mis-transcriptions
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 11 December 04 16:46 GMT (UK) »
county Offaly was previously known as Kings County, so that must be the reason.
Researching: Towers family of Paisley; Argyll: Carmichael, McQueen; W. Lothian: Aitken, Smeal, Cunningham, Brash, Easton; Stirlingshire: Bruce, Henderson, Galloway;  Midlothian: Gillis, Philp, Turner; Ayrshire: Robertson, McMurren (also County Down), Bone, Eaglesham, Scoffield, Frew, McLatchie;  Moray: Rennie, Stronach;   Donegal, Derry: Douglas, Wray, Steen;  Bermuda: Outerbridge, Seon

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Re: your worst/funniest mis-transcriptions
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 11 December 04 17:25 GMT (UK) »
I spent weeks and £££'s looking for my great-grandfather and his second wife
William and Maude Tudor on the 1901 Census. I knew they were both alive then as they ran a pub in Birmingham.
I eventually found them listed as William and Maude Freder.
At least I got there in the end, but talk about needle in a haystack !
Yapp - Ludlow Shropshire
Rawlings - Shropshire
Tudor - Aston Birmingham
Rabone - Aston Birmingham
Clayton - Aston Birmingham
Phillips - Birmingham, Redditch
Bower -Sheffield,Boston,
Barnett- Birmingham
Elson- Birmingham
Walton -Birmingham, Solihull
Green - Birmingham
Maling - Birmingham
Cain - Birmingham
Cheetham - Sheffield
Sharratt -Burton on Trent
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Re: your worst/funniest mis-transcriptions
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 11 December 04 17:33 GMT (UK) »
I spent ages looking for my grandfather in the 1901 census (he was born in 1891). I eventually found him listed as "baby  boy  age 10". His two elder sisters were listed as "twins dau  12".    Still, I got them in the end! 

Peter

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Re: your worst/funniest mis-transcriptions
« Reply #7 on: Saturday 11 December 04 17:36 GMT (UK) »
pet :o   At that time ! He would soon be getting to the age of Work so Baby is a bit odd  ;D
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Re: your worst/funniest mis-transcriptions
« Reply #8 on: Saturday 11 December 04 17:57 GMT (UK) »
To change the subject slightly; no, a lot; why do my number of posts always remain at 1 and not show the correct number? s it something I can adjust?

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