Your Favourite Census Mistranscriptions!

[sallysmum]

2 mistranscriptions surrounding my Sparkes -- Phoebe was transcribed Kirby and Jonathon Sparke transcribed as Jonathon Spook! -- yikes I've got ghoulies in me tree!

sallysmum

[Paul Caswell]

I recently found one of my gggrandfathers in the 1861 census.

He appears in:

1851 as Edmond Sears,
1861 as Edward Leeds,
1871 as Edward Seder,
1881 correctly as Edward Sears,
1891 as Edward Sear.

He has been my most challenging yet I think but my most memorable one was the hunt for a 'Kendal Blund' in Westmorland, only to notice that the 'blund' was in the 'disability' column of the census. He was blind.

Paul

[Comosus]

Not a census mistranscription, but I found a page where the enumerator had doodled on the paper!  Unfortunately the page wasn't for a relative afterall so I don't have a link to it

My Turveys have been difficult to find - Turvey, Turney, Turley, Surrey, Sarvey!

Andrew

[Benzol]

Comosus. I've just stumbled across a Turvey. It's not in the censuses. It's in the I.G.I. John Durocy married Sarah Garner 1815. John Durocy was actually a John Turvey from Houghton Regis Beds.

It was either very poor eyesight or very bad writing.

Benzol

[7igerby7he7ail]

I might have posted this one before

Not so much a mistranscription
A misreading on my part.

I thought I had found 'Adolf Hitler occupation Fuhrer'

After much magnification, I found I had 'Albert Hillier, occupation Furrier'

and there's me thinking I had some one 'famous' in the tree at last !

[angelfish58]

I couldn't find Wardell Watson in 1851 on Ancestry but someone ( Hi Ashley  ) found him on another site, with the ref no I managed to find him transcribed as Wardie Bertsch.

[Abiam2]

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

Hay Wire - Harry Wise ( middle name Uzbekiah just as well they didn't bother with that! 1891

Dobson - Dobron 1861

[BettyofKent]

For my Stutely line I've so far found 31 mistranscriptions, the best one being poor Ellen Stutely turning into Ellen Slutsky!
My favourite is Jemima Crumpler ending up as Fanina Oompler

Betty

[janglaschu]

I can't match Fanina Oompler 
but I do have a Wilfrid down as Winifred,
Denny in Stirlingshire mistranscribed as Derry,
and daur (daughter) as Mo.