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Assistance with deciphering a word on 1851 Cenus
« on: Sunday 03 June 18 16:06 BST (UK) »
Attached 1851 pdf census detail. Can anyone decipher the word written under John McManus Lodger aged 1 living with the Keir family at 93 High Street, please? I think his mother may have died.

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Re: Assistance with deciphering a word on 1851 Cenus
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 03 June 18 16:25 BST (UK) »
It looks as though it begins North....

Anything in that box ought to be a name, so it could be that one of McManus and North... is the surname and the other is a middle name. Or, since he was so young and possibly orphaned, maybe there was some doubt as to what his surname really was.

It might be worth investigating how he came to be living with the Keir family, and whether they were related.

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Re: Assistance with deciphering a word on 1851 Cenus
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 03 June 18 16:27 BST (UK) »
Northhouse ?

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Re: Assistance with deciphering a word on 1851 Cenus
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 03 June 18 17:48 BST (UK) »
My guess is that it says John Northhouse.
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Re: Assistance with deciphering a word on 1851 Cenus
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 03 June 18 18:28 BST (UK) »
There's only 1 entry on SP for surname Northhouse which was 1824

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Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)

Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling

Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon

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Re: Assistance with deciphering a word on 1851 Cenus
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 03 June 18 18:51 BST (UK) »
GMathews,

Can I ask whether you came across John McManus on the census or was it him you were looking up on SP by surname McManus?

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South Uist, Inverness-shire, Scotland:- Bowie, Campbell, Cumming, Currie

Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)

Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling

Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon

Canada:- Callaghan, Cumming, MacPhee

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Re: Assistance with deciphering a word on 1851 Cenus
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 03 June 18 18:55 BST (UK) »
Quote from: GMatthews on Sunday 03 June 18 16:06 BST (UK)
Attached 1851 pdf census detail. Can anyone decipher the word written under John McManus Lodger aged 1 living with the Keir family at 93 High Street, please? I think his mother may have died.

Can you tell us where this census was taken please as there's 100s of High Streets, at least 1 in every town & many towns in 1 County?

Can you also list the names of the Keir family please as it helps when searching?

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South Uist, Inverness-shire, Scotland:- Bowie, Campbell, Cumming, Currie

Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)

Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling

Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon

Canada:- Callaghan, Cumming, MacPhee

"OLD GENEALOGISTS NEVER DIE - THEY JUST LOSE THEIR CENSUS"

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Re: Assistance with deciphering a word on 1851 Cenus
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 03 June 18 19:04 BST (UK) »
Might it be 'Workhouse?
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Re: Assistance with deciphering a word on 1851 Cenus
« Reply #8 on: Sunday 03 June 18 19:24 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Pennines on Sunday 03 June 18 19:04 BST (UK)
Might it be 'Workhouse?

That looks good & possible?

I don't see a John M(a)cManus born Lanark 1849 - 1851 i.e. probably not baptised?

Annie
South Uist, Inverness-shire, Scotland:- Bowie, Campbell, Cumming, Currie

Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)

Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling

Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon

Canada:- Callaghan, Cumming, MacPhee

"OLD GENEALOGISTS NEVER DIE - THEY JUST LOSE THEIR CENSUS"
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