Incorrect Census transcriptions on Ancestry

[Cybermouse]

Hi

When you look at the writing on some of the images you can understand how errors occur.  I have struggled many a time and even magnifying it doesn't always help.  Also - a lot are very faint and almost unreadable.  Those type of transcription errors I can excuse.

But it must take a pretty dumb sort of person to look at an image with around 25 entries on it and think that all the various wives and children are surname SO even though the husbands have a different surname. 

Right on, Carol

I have had my fair share of "challenging" transcriptions with probates but for goodness sake it only takes a little imagination and common sense to realize the bleeding obvious, LOL


Bron

[Emmeline]

On every census Mary Morgan was show as having been born in Great Catworth, Huntingdonshire - except for the 1861 - there she is shown as having been born in Hungary !

[Alectrea]

Three generations with the name of John Udy and only 'Cornwall' as  the birthplace for the elder two makes things difficult. Having found the elder two ,as I hope, in Wales, the family then disapears from Census Records until 1881! However, the elder two were both cordwainers/shoemakers and according to the Marriage Certificate for the younger they must have been in London in the 1850's. Any help would be appreciated.

[Ecneps]

Coould you give dates of birth for the two Johns you're looking for in London, and marriage details?

[Alectrea]

The eldest John was born c1811 in Cornwall, no marriage date. Next John was also born in Cornwall c1836, he marrried Ann Cobb on April 19th 1858 at St. Mary Magdalene in St. Pancras, Mddx. Ann's father William Cobb,was a butcher. Have Ann's death as 1889 in Bethnal Green.The youngest John - John Joseph was born 1858/9 and died 1899. My grandmother was Louise born 1873 who died 1904.

[PaulineJ]

Could you please post any  request separate from this thread.

It isn't for doing lookups, and it's better to try and keep on-topic

Pauline

[Ecneps]

My fault, not Alectrea's I think, Pauline, I asked her for their details on here instead of suggesting a new posting 
Anyway, think I've found them in 1861 under a slightly different name, for a change not mistranscribed by ancestry 
Barbara

[DudleyWinchurch]

Yes, and I dont understand why - the GRO only 'sell' (licence) 1 version of the full Indices ?

Apologies if anyone already pointed this out, but I have noticed when doing painstaking quarter by quarter searches on Ancestry BMD that some pages do not appear.  One big reason seems to be that where the original index was amended, extra names are sometimes added by hand at the foot of the page.  Ancestry appear to have used the physical first and last names per page and not the logical ones

(made-up example)  page starts with Bloggs and one is missing, at end of page under the list that is now maybe halfway through Browns, an extra Bloggs is written in and linked with asterisk to where it belongs.  For Ancestry that page would contain only Bloggs-Bloggs entries so all those Browns and any names in between have disappeared from the index.

Once you are aware of it you can try a name before or after the one that you are interested in and get to it by using previous/next page options.  It's a pain but the names and pages are still there, just not accessible directly via the index.

[Ecneps]

Just found a good one when looking for a Hillen family in Burnham Norfolk

1851 HO107/1827 f.77 p.4
Indexed at the end of the family was one Empty Honn, niece, unm, 25

it is of course an empty house, and dittos under the unm niece on the line above   

Barbara