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Re: Censuswhack
« Reply #216 on: Thursday 31 March 05 11:33 BST (UK) »
Hi shumagh,

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« Reply #217 on: Thursday 31 March 05 17:24 BST (UK) »
Hi,

I know it pays to be fast at things, but James Cave was the only Quick Hedger on the 1881 census.

I guess the others all worked at regular speed.

Sue
SCOTLAND: Scotland, Morrison, Bonnella, Third,
LINCOLNSHIRE: Bell, King, Emerson, Leesing, Canty, Cutting, Fox,
GLOUCESTERSHIRE: Antill, Onslow, Crook, Jenkins,
LANCASHIRE: Hall, Mayson, Dearden,
WILTSHIRE: Sloper, King, Willis, Stockwell,
ESSEX: Stone, Webb, Smith, Hawkins, Frye,
SOMERSET: Harrison, Jones,

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Re: Censuswhack
« Reply #218 on: Friday 01 April 05 01:09 BST (UK) »
How about these two from the 1871 Census?

JANE BOLLOCKS, St Werburgh
JANE CRAP, Woolsthorpe

The second one is not a unique surname but I though it kind of completed the set ;).

Suprisingly I found these on Ancestry and not one of the other paysites  >:( that have had a few quid off me to look at nothing at all useful where their entries would have been more appropriate :)
Crighton, Dundee & London<br />Woodgates, Bath, Devon & London<br />Curtis, Nottinghamshire & Islington<br />Maker, Cornwall & London<br /><br />Census information is Crown Copyright http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

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Re: Censuswhack
« Reply #219 on: Friday 01 April 05 01:56 BST (UK) »
Hi alcrighton

One of the pleasures of sites like Ancestry has to be the fun to be had finding entries like those!

More Censuswhack entries always welcome!

Paul

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« Reply #220 on: Friday 01 April 05 16:47 BST (UK) »
I know you keep thinking about closing down this thread Paul in the spirit of Fawlty Towers and before it becomes Rocky XXVII but I couldn't resist mentioning that there are literally hundreds of people born in "Somalia" in the 1891 census in places like:

Bath, Somalia
Tiverton-on-Avon, Somalia
Bridgwater, Somalia
Burnham, Somalia etc. etc.

I grew up in Burnham, Somerset and the local services are probably on a par with those in Somalia but even so......

Please don't close this thread down just yet.  I joined Rootschat a few weeks ago and up until yesterday was only doing serious stuff.  Censuswhack is one of the funniest things I've seen in a long while.

Keep Censuswacking,

Allan
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Re: Censuswhack
« Reply #221 on: Friday 01 April 05 18:49 BST (UK) »
Quote from: alcrighton on Friday 01 April 05 16:47 BST (UK)
I grew up in Burnham, Somerset and the local services are probably on a par with those in Somalia but even so......
Allan


Could you please post that comment on some tourist info sites Allan........I moved here 2 years ago thinking it would be a quite, peaceful place to live .........it is until Easter when the inhabitants of the West Midlands and Wales move in in their caravans.  No offence to the natives of Wales or the West Midlands.....but can't you think of somewhere more exotic to spend your holidays like Weston or Clacton ??  ;)

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Bevan, Hill, Tustin, Watkins, Teague (Herefordshire, Radnorshire). Rockett, Lillycrap, Govett, Gready, Saunders (Somerset). Sussex, Smale (Devon). Oliver, Kennedy, Cummings, Wright (Co. Durham). Farish (Cumberland, Scotland). Cox (London, Middlessex, Buckinghamshire).

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Re: Censuswhack
« Reply #222 on: Friday 01 April 05 19:52 BST (UK) »
Hi Tabiltha,

You only have to survive those 20 or so weeks between Easter and the end of the school holidays (more like 24 this year because Easter was early) to get back to the peace and quiet you so love in Burnham.  Hang in there, the tourist income that the town gets in that season helps keep it going for the rest of the year.  It's easy for me to say this because this because I now live in the mountains of Mexico (very peaceful here) and only visit Burnham a couple of times a year!

On a more general topic:  Do you think we can get the word Censuswhack into the OED?  Maybe I should start a new thread for the best use of the word in a sentence with separate categories for the noun (Censuswhack), verb (to censuswhack) and adjective (censuswhacky)?

Cheers,

Al
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Re: Censuswhack
« Reply #223 on: Friday 01 April 05 20:19 BST (UK) »
Quote from: alcrighton on Friday 01 April 05 19:52 BST (UK)

On a more general topic:  Do you think we can get the word Censuswhack into the OED?  Maybe I should start a new thread for the best use of the word in a sentence with separate categories for the noun (Censuswhack), verb (to censuswhack) and adjective (censuswhacky)?

You'd better start a campaign!!!! ;D   Has Googlewhack got there yet?

tabitha
Bevan, Hill, Tustin, Watkins, Teague (Herefordshire, Radnorshire). Rockett, Lillycrap, Govett, Gready, Saunders (Somerset). Sussex, Smale (Devon). Oliver, Kennedy, Cummings, Wright (Co. Durham). Farish (Cumberland, Scotland). Cox (London, Middlessex, Buckinghamshire).

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Re: Censuswhack
« Reply #224 on: Sunday 03 April 05 09:20 BST (UK) »
Quote from: alcrighton on Friday 01 April 05 16:47 BST (UK)
I know you keep thinking about closing down this thread Paul in the spirit of Fawlty Towers and before it becomes Rocky XXVII ... Please don't close this thread down just yet.  I joined Rootschat a few weeks ago and up until yesterday was only doing serious stuff.  Censuswhack is one of the funniest things I've seen in a long while.

Keep Censuswacking,

Allan

Hi Allan

I think when I opened this thread I thought it would run out of steam pretty quickly ... but with 3000+ views I guess it has garnered some level of interest! :)

While the options for Censuswhacks are not unlimited, we haven't yet exhausted the seam yet, so Carry on Censuswhacking!

Your lost tribe of Burnham is a new one  :) ... for more discussion on the idiosyncratic foreign nationals on the census, see the 'Your Favourite Census Mistranscription' thread. 

You must tell us more about your life in Mexico - very envious!

cheers


Paul

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