Your Favourite Census Mistranscriptions!

[Ray T]

Found this last night -

I read it as - Albert Holmes - Clerk in Holy Orders (C.E.) - Chelmorton Vicarage

It was transcribed as - Albert Holme - Clerk in Holy Rider (C.E) - Chelmorton Quarry

Really!

[coombs]

A lady called Henry Thomas Roberts in 1851.

Woodbridge wrote down as Wootriop.

Gertrude transcribed as Jarichaede.

A Pernella E Smell born Phedge Naton, Oxfordshire. Reality Priscilla Smith born Brize Norton.

[Gaille]

LOL gt granny Planceana (OK I know its unusual!)
Found her s transcribed a Plant suna!

her complete hame was planceana mary childs .  . found her listed once as child of Mary Plant once!

[Rosemarie]

I may have posted this previously, but it's one of my favourites: I discovered that an ancestor I believed had been born in Ince Blundell, was in fact born in Nice Blurwell, or that's what a transcription of the 1861 census would have me believe.

[Meezer]

These are wonderful! I'm sitting here with tears pouring down my cheeks

I really lost it at "Adolf Hitler, Fuhrer"!!

[groom]

My great x 2 grandfather was Welcome Howell apparently, I always thought he was William, at least that is what it said on his birth and marriage certificate. 

Another set of relatives must have had one of the first same sex marriages, as in the census Thomas's wife is called James. (should be Jane)

[BordersCrafter]

This has had me in fits of laughter - my sides hurt!!!

Favourites were the blind carpenter, the person born "in a tunnel" and the person who "lives in the shed"

[pinefamily]

My great x 2 grandfather was Welcome Howell apparently, I always thought he was William, at least that is what it said on his birth and marriage certificate. 

Another set of relatives must have had one of the first same sex marriages, as in the census Thomas's wife is called James. (should be Jane)

I have one of those same sex marriages too, although not in a census. In a burial record, Jane Carrington, wife of Benjamin, was transcribed as James (!).

And I still think one of the best census ones I have seen myself is "Oeanter", Devon given as a birthplace. Took me ages, and some verbal accenting, to discover it was Okehampton.

[lizdb]

I've just this minute found 60 yr old William - as a 'son' to 35 yr old Charles and 32 yr old Jane.

Amazing!

Actually the image says "serv" abbr. for servant.

You would have thought that the transcribers would have realised that what they put could not possibly be correct.