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Topic: Your Favourite Census Mistranscriptions! (Read 11957 times)
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Paul Caswell
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I recently found one of my gggrandfathers in the 1861 census.
He appears in:
1851 as Edmond Sears,
1861 as Edward Leeds,
1871 as Edward Seder,
1881 correctly as Edward Sears,
1891 as Edward Sear.
He has been my most challenging yet I think but my most memorable one was the hunt for a 'Kendal Blund' in Westmorland, only to notice that the 'blund' was in the 'disability' column of the census. He was blind. 
Paul
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Caswell - Durham(Jarrow), Northumberland(Berwick), Dorset(Netherbury) Drury - Middlesex(Kensington), Shropshire(Selattyn) Turner - Dorset(Parkstone) Speight - Essex(Braintree), Kent(Gravesend), Westmorland(Kendal) Stockley - Dorset(Corfe Castle) Amey - Suffolk(Haverill) Cousins - Norfolk(Ketteringham) Sears - Bedfordshire(Potton), Cambridgeshire(Gamlingay) Census information is Crown Copyright
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Comosus
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Not a census mistranscription, but I found a page where the enumerator had doodled on the paper! Unfortunately the page wasn't for a relative afterall so I don't have a link to it 
My Turveys have been difficult to find - Turvey, Turney, Turley, Surrey, Sarvey!
Andrew
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Leeds - HOLMES (also at Boston Spa, Thorp Arch), SCHOLEY/SCOREY/SCHORAH (also at Stanley, Wakefield), TURVEY (also at Birmingham), WARD, WHITE, WOODHEAD (also at Halton, Whitkirk, Templenewsam). Dewsbury - CRAWSHAW, GLEDHILL, SPEIGHT Great Horton - RAMSDEN, SHACKLETON, WOOLER Woolsthorpe by Belvoir - SMITH Barrowby and South Stoke, Lincolnshire - PARKER Derby and Newhall - STREET Census information Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Gensleuth
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Where are they?
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I might have posted this one before
Not so much a mistranscription
A misreading on my part.
I thought I had found 'Adolf Hitler occupation Fuhrer'
After much magnification, I found I had 'Albert Hillier, occupation Furrier'
and there's me thinking I had some one 'famous' in the tree at last !
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GAUNT N Staffordshire,GAUNT Manchester.GUY,Shropshire, BARTLEY,Salford, Lancs, NEVILLE,Salford. PHILLIPS,Staffs, MAYER,Staffs,COSSAR,Berwick, E and Mid Lothian and Argyll. HIGGINS,Glasgowand Dunoon,Argyll.GALLAGHER,Argyll,IRISH,Herts.
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angelfish58
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Who is Norman Carne & why do we have his photo?
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I couldn't find Wardell Watson in 1851 on Ancestry but someone ( Hi Ashley  ) found him on another site, with the ref no I managed to find him transcribed as Wardie Bertsch.
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Watson, Snowball, Pyburn, Heppell, Ferry, Holmes, Clennett, Co.Duham & Northumberland
Stockton, Watson N. Yorks
Brown & Anstey, Devon
Challnor/Challoner, Moore, Mansell, Shropshire
Davies or David, Glamorgan
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Abiam
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It's that time of year again!
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Grandparents JUBB instead of Tubb 1861 changed by FMP. GFather 78 and a blind carpenter!
Hay Wire - Harry Wise ( middle name Uzbekiah just as well they didn't bother with that! 1891
Dobson - Dobron 1861
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Genealogists never die! They just undertake to join their ancestors!
DOBSON,Berks, Wilts.DOPSON, Fyfield, Wilts
SMITH, WEBB, Little Gransden, Gamlingay, Cambs
WEBB, Hatley St George, Hunts
HUNT, Wanborough, Swindon, Wilts
TUBB, Hungerford, Berks, EGERTON, Highworth, Wilts
WISE, South Australia, WISE, Fawley, Berks
WISE, Bray, Binfield, Berks
WYSE, Wise, Maidenhead, Berks
VINCE, VINCENT, St Mary Bourne, Hants, Bucks, Berks
TUCKWELL ANYWHERE!
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BettyofKent
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Ray & Frank
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For my Stutely line I've so far found 31 mistranscriptions, the best one being poor Ellen Stutely turning into Ellen Slutsky!
My favourite is Jemima Crumpler ending up as Fanina Oompler
Betty
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KENT: Stutely - Wittersham & Stone Padgham - Wittersham Wanstall - Northbourne Taylor - Ringwould & Ash Skinner - Deal Bushell - Walmer Spain - Walmer Also Schloss - Poland, Nottingham, Massachusetts & New Zealand. Cohen - Birmingham "Census information is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov. |
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janglaschu
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Cuimhnichibh air na daoine o'n dh'thainic
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I can't match Fanina Oompler 
but I do have a Wilfrid down as Winifred,
Denny in Stirlingshire mistranscribed as Derry,
and daur (daughter) as Mo.
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Suffolk, England – Benstead, Boldero, Boldy, Boyns, Boynes, Collins, Cooper, Elliott, Fletcher, Laflin, Laws, Lankester, Markham, Marshall, Orriss, Steward, Taylor, Thimblethorpe
Scotland – Barclay, Campbell, Finlay, Freeland, Grove, Hay, Horn, Laird, McDonald, McKay, Milne, Mills, Peebles, Robertson, Shearer, Stewart, Strang, Thomson
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ozlady
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Ex-South Wales. Down Under in Brisbane, Australia
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1891 Census England.
Annie Howells born Blaenarvon, Northamptonshire.
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Watkins, Price Herefordshire Brannan, Price, GLAM Edwards, Gardner MON Clark(e) SOM Census information Crown Copyright www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Nick29
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Yesterday I was researching a g.g. aunt whose birthplace according to Ancestry was "Mary Fan, London". It took a minute or two for the penny to drop, and for me to realise it was "Mayfair, London". And the lady's father was born in "Ceckugham, Suffolk", which I'd fortunately already previously found as "Cretingham, Suffolk".
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Best Wishes, Nick. Research interests: Field - Luton & Islington Hole - Somerset, Suffolk & Surrey Farnish, Parker, Cattermole, Last, Wasp, Church - Suffolk Lewin/Lowin/Lowen - Hertfordhire Martin - Eltham & Greenwich, Kent (London) Stead - Greenwich, London (Kent) & Maidstone Wood - Hertfordshire Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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