Your Favourite Census Mistranscriptions!

[pinefamily]

Can we start a campaign to get the next census released earlier because it will be the last one for quite some time (at least in our lifetimes!)?

[g eli]

When I first started looking for my Tanser relatives I had great difficulty, occasionally they were right but I have found Tawser ,Lancer, Lanser, Saucer, Sancer, Fancer, now I know what to look for, but I still wonder if they missed a certain census or were hiding under a different name.
Liz

[Redroger]

Though this was first mentioned in my earlier post, and I am on the whole in favour of early realease of census data; I believe that in view of the forthcoming 30 year gap; certainly on the census, though the headcount of 1939 may also be released I would suggest in 2040, reducing the gap to 20 years, I think it more important to ensure an accurate transcription is released rather than rushing things, and thereby falling into the cheap and nasty trap yet again.

[coombs]

Jarichnaede Wallaker, 1871. Real name Gertrude Georgeanna Wallaker.
One ancestor sibling had his birthplace mistranscribed as Woodtriop, Suffolk, really Woodbridge.

I have come across birthplaces which dont exist such as Dedman, Suffolk or Maderlane Kent.

[pinefamily]

I think the place names are the best for a mistranscription, whether by the enumerator, or by the transcriber of the record.

[sallysmum]

One of my favourites is 'Pestermanbybing Wales'

Gt uncle Charles was actually  born in 'Peitermaritzburg Natal'.  His father was a soldier and served 5 years in South Africa.  I think the Wales bit came as the transcriber looked at where his mother was born and assumed the same!

sallysmum

[Stanwix England]

My favorite is my own name which is mistranscribed in the England and Wales Birth Index.

My name is Ilona but in the index I am listed as 'Shona'.

There is something about my name that causes administrators to make mistakes. I've seen it written the wrong way hundreds of times!

[elin]

This one made me laugh! One of my Welsh relatives, Myfanwy,  entered  by the presumably Welsh enumerator as My Fanny!

[pinefamily]