Mistranscription

[Top-of-the-hill]

  A fairly understandable parish register one I came across yesterday. I found a bride with the surname Howay in mid-Kent, and thinking it was an odd name I looked at the original and realised it was Ottoway, which is a name that occurs in my husband's mid-Kent ancestry. I sent in a correction, but I thought I would check the others and they are all Ottoway. It is an unusual name, but the capital O is pretty clear in most of them. I have passed the information to FindMyPast, and await their answer.

[Girl Guide]

Good luck with that!  I reported a missing child, William Henry Jarvis, from a 1911 census who is listed on the original, back in 2020.  The correction has never been made so this child does not appear on the transcription.

I've just checked it and the correction has still not been made.  I did a chat back in 2019 about this, nothing done.  In 2020 I reported the error by filling in the relevant boxes.

This is the link to the transcription:-

https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBC%2F1911%2FRG14%2F06791%2F0403%2F4

If you click to view the original you will see what I mean. 

[Davedrave]

I have recently submitted three or four corrections to Findmypast and they acted very quickly and corrected them, so it seems odd that they appear to ignore you.

[Girl Guide]

Most odd Dave, perhaps I shall try again once TOTH has seen my post.

[Top-of-the-hill]

  Some seem to get corrected quickly while others disappear without trace. Also something odd has happened - I have several reports which I have sent in, and the replies saying they will be acted on, saved in my emails, but I can no longer check them, as I get sent to the "Welcome back" page!
   G.G. I see what you mean - he is definitely not there.

[bevj]

Out of interest, what was the marriage, please?
My 7 x great grandmother was Dorcas Ottaway who married into the Bourne family in 1720.
Thanks!
Bev

[Top-of-the-hill]

  I mis-remembered slightly, as it is quite a while since I did the research, but there could well be a link. The name I have is Attaway Bourne, (baptised Ottaway) 1773 Hothfield, who had a daughter Dorcas. I will need to do some checking - too late at night now!

[andrewalston]

I've been ploughing through the 1921 for my One Name Study and submitting corrections. Nearly all have been accepted without problem, including one where a person's details were inexplicably converted into two database entries, one with just the name and another with the rest of the details. Luckily he was with family.

One I've had no success with was entered as the 11th person on the household form. He was the wife's grandfather, and it was only the fact that he had been living with her in 1911 that allowed him to be found. Of course there were more children 10 years later, and they had not used a continuation sheet. I can't submit a correction to a record which doesn't exist, and multiple emails to support have gone unanswered.

[bevj]

  I mis-remembered slightly, as it is quite a while since I did the research, but there could well be a link. The name I have is Attaway Bourne, (baptised Ottaway) 1773 Hothfield, who had a daughter Dorcas. I will need to do some checking - too late at night now!

Yes, I have this family in my tree.  Attaway/Ottaway Bourne's grandparents, Daniel Bourne and Dorcas Ottaway and thereafter his aunt Dorcas Bourne are my direct ancestors.
I'll drop you a PM so as not to hijack this thread 
Bev