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Topic: Your Favourite Census Mistranscriptions! (Read 11946 times)
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Paul E
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Hi Angela
You can access the keywords box in a number of ways.
If you are in a particular census year (eg 1871) and are on the blue EXACT MATCHES screen rather than the orange BEST MATCHES screen, there is an option to the left of the SEARCH button that says 'Show Advanced Search Options'. If you click on this, you get a range of options, one of which is KEYWORDS.
Its also available on the SEARCH CENSUS RECORDS screen, which performs a search across all the censuses. If you input Western Sahara on the Keywords box here, (you don't need to complete any other box) and click search, you'll see the result.
Hope this helps
Paul
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carol8353
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My two gorgeous grandsons
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If you use Paul's method and type in born in Somalia on the census page.
It has been mistranscribed for Somerset.
You get the following results!!!!!!!!
1871 England Census 1
1871 Isle of Man Census 3
1871 Wales Census 355
1891 Channel Islands Census 1
1891 England Census 10,099
1891 Wales Census 1,402
1901 England Census 2
All of you with ancestors born in Taunton and surrounding areas, whom you can't find in 1891, try Somalia.
By the way Ancestry are aware and are working on putting things right.
Carol
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Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukRogers, Rapkin, Phillips - Hammersmith/Fulham/Paddington areas Worth Bailey, Heapy, Burgess. All Macclesfield Cheshire Mockridge,West Monkton Somerset Jenner,Clapham Surrey Kendrick,Liverpool Wensley,Somerset Coleman and Mc Namara from Ennis, Co Clare, Ireland Blake and Maloney from Kilbaha Co Clare, Ireland |
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Paul E
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Carol - you've just dashed a thousand family historians' dreams of tracing their family back to the African plains! 
best wishes
Paul
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Paul E
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In 1881 he was called 'FWITCHIS' .............. honest .. if you dont believe me take a look ............. He's the only one there with that 'dopey' name !!
joboy
Sounds like you need to be visiting the CENSUSWHACK thread, joboy!
Paul
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Manchester Rambler
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On the 1871 census transcription, I recently came across
Gaston Huguenin, born Watchfield, Cheshire, Switzerland!
How the transcriber could get the name right, but misread "Naturalised British" as "Watchfield, Cheshire" defeats me!
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ANT: Nesbit, Potts CHS: Gosling, Hinton, Johnson, Marsland, Sorton LAN: Barlow, Jackson, James, Potts, Sorton MAY: Caulfield, Griffin SAL/STS: Goodwin, Gregory SOM: Dowding, James, Jones Any census information included in this post is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Paul E
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I always thought there was a Swiss Canton called Cheshire, MR, where the locals persisted (despite a wealth of experience to the contrary) in trying to make watches out of rock salt.
Oh, how the rest of the country laughed at them! 
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Manchester Rambler
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No, that's Fribourg FR - at least according to my husband, who comes from the canton of Neuchâtel.
By the way, we found someone from his home town on the 1891 census: it's a bit unfair to count it as a mistranscription, but here it is anyway:
George A Perrenoud, b. Chauxdefourd, Purtzerland
La Chaux-de-Fonds isn't exactly well-known, but Purtzerland for Switzerland?
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ANT: Nesbit, Potts CHS: Gosling, Hinton, Johnson, Marsland, Sorton LAN: Barlow, Jackson, James, Potts, Sorton MAY: Caulfield, Griffin SAL/STS: Goodwin, Gregory SOM: Dowding, James, Jones Any census information included in this post is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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AngelaR
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My great grandparents Basil & Sarah Sealey
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Thanks for the help on Keywords, Paul - I'd never tried them before!
What a great way to avoid doing the work I was supposed to be tackling 
Western Sahara is particularly bizarre - I can't imagine how they got that out of the records.
On the other hand, it might be easier to see how they mistranscribed an 'l' to an 'r' in the Bellamy family's address in 1881 - Clap Gate, Thorne, Yorkshire....
Angela
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Any census information included in this post is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukEspecially looking for - Sealey, Rogers, Sheppard in Wiltshire; Virgin, Slade, Abbott, Saint in Somerset; and Virgin, Tarr, Beer in Devon |
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Manchester Rambler
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All of you with ancestors born in Taunton and surrounding areas, whom you can't find in 1891, try Somalia.
By the way Ancestry are aware and are working on putting things right.
Carol
Several Cheshire towns have mysteriously emigrated to Switzerland on the same census - I can only suppose a transcriber used the abbreviation CH?
And for Francoise Ashenden, who was really born in Switzerland, the transcribers have invented a new town called Naburilion B Subject.....
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ANT: Nesbit, Potts CHS: Gosling, Hinton, Johnson, Marsland, Sorton LAN: Barlow, Jackson, James, Potts, Sorton MAY: Caulfield, Griffin SAL/STS: Goodwin, Gregory SOM: Dowding, James, Jones Any census information included in this post is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Linda_J
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Hi all
Maybe I might find my missing ancestor in Saudi Arabia instead of Sandhurst. I better go check!
Linda
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Dove - Maidstone Kent Ralph - Relf - Cranbrook Kent Cottrell - Barcombe Sussex Ecclestone - Norfolk and Suffolk Gooch - Norfolk Burgess - Sussex and Hampshire Stanton - Breconshire Other names; French, Beale, Higgins (all Kent) Census information is Crown Copyright http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Tariana
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these are from US census. 1930 and 1880, the only ones I have access too. I don't know about other places, but here they charge. A LOT.... 
Molly Jo Smith - transcribed as Mallie Joe Smith
Lity Smith - transcribed as Lida Smith
Reba Smith - transcribed as Reber Smith
this isn't one of mine, but I just found a Hottie Smith.  haha
ooh, and a Smith Smith - bet that name took effort
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Paul E
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and a Smith Smith
I bet there are Smith family historians who dream of having this person in their tree!
best wishes
Paul
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Manchester Rambler
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Born in foreign parts....
Romanos Pfaff - Bad English Subject - Merthyr Tydfil, 1871
(The image clearly says Baden!)
Louis Baillon - Naturalizon Englist Sulitts, France - Northampton, 1871
Mary J Birks - Naturalizee, USA - Crewe, 1871
William R L Brachebuch - Naturalesad British Sub - Whitby, 1871
MR
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ANT: Nesbit, Potts CHS: Gosling, Hinton, Johnson, Marsland, Sorton LAN: Barlow, Jackson, James, Potts, Sorton MAY: Caulfield, Griffin SAL/STS: Goodwin, Gregory SOM: Dowding, James, Jones Any census information included in this post is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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