Your Favourite Census Mistranscriptions!

[SueTeakle]

Just noticed this place name on the 1861 census while searching for someone:-
Sketty Snander..............supposedly in Gloucestershire 
To be fair it does look right, misheard I suppose 

Regards, Sue

[Su]

Just found John Yarwood of Pickmere on the 1901 census - transcribed as John Garwood of Dickmere

He's one of mine 

Su

[KeithS]

Hi listers
As a housing officer who often helps tenants to fill in forms for housing benefite etc I can hardly imagine a future census transcribers reactions when he finds a family where 'dad' has a different surname than mum and each of 6 kids has a surname different than either of them. Oh, and 10 years later there's a different 'dad', three of the kids have children who appear to have no dads themselves but have different surnames to anyone else in the household! I do assure you its not very far fetched.

Keith 

[PaulineJ]

Alongside the poor little kid around here who had to produce five Father's day cards, one for each of his mum's men-friends. Maybe the CSA will preserve their records to help a bit!.

Pauline

Oh, and back to the subject . Today I found the
Humphries family in B'ham. Indexed as Shadepeas

[Shaztoni]

Just found poot Lot Harrison who in 1891 was reduced to Sat 

[wotty]

I found a distant ancestor on the 1861 census who was apparently born in Chester cathedral.

He was actually born in Chester-le-Street,  County Durham.

I know they used to say that "in the olden days" women would give birth in the fields and then get straight back on with their work - but this painted quite another picture!

Wotty.

[hlbradd]

Must admit that 'Cohu' Roblett had me puzzled for a while.

Then I looked at the image - it's JOHN 

Thought I had enough trouble tracking my Robletts already !


At least you can report mistranscribed names to Ancestry - wish they'd get a move on so you can report babies of, say, 9 months that get transcribed as being 9 years !

Helen

[Rosemarie]

1901 - Connolly written as Conn Elly and transcribed as just Elly. I tried first name, age and place of birth - on numerous occasions over a period of three years. Eventually I thought of looking for an Elly family in the home town and there were none and, despite Patrick Elly being in a conpletely town than I'd expected, I knew that at last I'd found my grandfather.

1861 - Looking for someone with a fairly common name (no, not Patrick Connolly!) and tried to narrow it down by 'place of birth' which was Ince Bludell and drew a complete blank. When I eventually traced him I discovered he'd actually been born in 'Nice Blurwell'!

Marie.

[B1]

I was going through the GENUKI site I found looking for Lisle and Besford names.  Here's what I found:

John Ramsay=John Besford 23 Nov 1834