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Re: Slapdash census enumerators.
« Reply #18 on: Sunday 28 May 23 14:27 BST (UK) »
Thank you, Bookbox  :)
Transcriptions and NBI are merely finding aids.  They are NOT a substitute for original record entries.
Remember - "They'll be found when they want to be found" !!!
If you don't ask the question, you won't get an answer.
He/she who never made a mistake, never made anything.
Archbell - anywhere, any date
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Milner - WRY
Appleyard - WRY

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Re: Slapdash census enumerators.
« Reply #19 on: Sunday 28 May 23 15:09 BST (UK) »
  I have tried more than once to get a correction to an entry in the 1851 Scottish census. I wonder if this is actually possible? All I get is the standard reply saying "we agree, and it will be corrected soon", then nothing happens. The father's entry is transcribed Coldingham. Berwickshire Scotland, and the rest of the family apparently lived in Brecknockshire, Wales!
Pay, Kent
Codham/Coltham, Kent
Kent, Felton, Essex
Staples, Wiltshire

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Re: Slapdash census enumerators.
« Reply #20 on: Monday 29 May 23 11:53 BST (UK) »
As David Annal says, the householder/s completed the census form, and David does not like the "common image" of the enumerator stood at the doorstep writing out the answers to the householders question. Instead he prefers it to be the image of the enumerator collecting the completed forms after census night.

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LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain
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