Your Favourite Census Mistranscriptions!

[ozlady]

1891 Census England.

Annie Howells born Blaenarvon, Northamptonshire.

[boosh]

Funnily enough I came across one yesterday in the 1851 census. I was looking for Catherine Whiteman born in Hackney 1844 residing in Shropshire.  Found her eventually having been given the sweet name of Catherine 'Shitewins'!   

Pip

[thornhill121]

While looking for my Dads Granny i found 1881 census info on both ancestry and lds stating her fathers name as JAS. It didn't match up to any other info I could find and it puzzled me til I looked at the image for myself when it clearly reads Sam!!!!

Just goes to show you can't trust everything you read.

[chinakay]

Newly available images from the 1881 Canada census show that my ggrandfather's eldest son, described as a SERVANT, was actually a TINSMITH. A perfectly natural mistake, I'm sure....

Cheers,
China

[lynneviews]

I have spent two years trying to locate a Louise Wiscon clearly written on a wedding certicate I have - only to discover that her name was actually Dixon  - with very curly d's. I may get somewhere now!

[Nick29]

Yesterday I was researching a g.g. aunt whose birthplace according to Ancestry was "Mary Fan, London".  It took a minute or two for the penny to drop, and for me to realise it was "Mayfair, London".  And the lady's father was born in "Ceckugham, Suffolk", which I'd fortunately already previously found as "Cretingham, Suffolk". 

[aghadowey]

I fould a relative named Zebra the other day and thought it was a strange name for a little boy but luckily remembered seeing an unusual but similar name in another earlier census for the father's family- Sebra not Zebra! Thought the child would be easy to spot in other records but he seems to have also been called William.

[buckaroo]

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,256903.0.html

Not exactly a mis-transcription... but definately my favourite find ever!
I won't spoil it by explaining, I'll let you all take a look at the thread.

Enjoy!!

[chinakay]

Grandparents JUBB instead of Tubb 1861 changed by FindMyPast.  GFather 78 and a blind carpenter!

Just found this very old post....it's funny, because I have a JUBB that's mistranscribed as TUBB

Jubb and Tubb can be hard to find, because in the old handwriting the capital J, I, F and T look pretty similar.

Cheers,
China