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Re: The worst Ancestry transcription ever?
« Reply #162 on: Thursday 08 June 17 13:49 BST (UK) »
Was he a time traveller ?  ;D

I wouldn't have minded if it had
been a long service award, but it
was the General Service Medal.
 ;D ;D ;D

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Re: The worst Ancestry transcription ever?
« Reply #163 on: Thursday 08 June 17 18:22 BST (UK) »
Forenames and surnames which have exotic sounding transcriptions such as Thirza mis transcribed as Shaina in the Oxfordshire Marriage Records. A distant rellie reported the error and corrected it.
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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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Re: The worst Ancestry transcription ever?
« Reply #164 on: Friday 28 July 17 05:32 BST (UK) »
Helen transcribed as "Mab K"

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Re: The worst Ancestry transcription ever?
« Reply #165 on: Wednesday 02 August 17 16:07 BST (UK) »
On FindMyPast 1911 - Henry Carpenter: a Stereod Gels Salesman......  Thought he must be selling new-fangled ointments....

but no -

Stewed Eels of course!


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Re: The worst Ancestry transcription ever?
« Reply #166 on: Wednesday 02 August 17 17:35 BST (UK) »
On the 1939 register I eventually found a maternal Gt Grandmother and relatives transcribed as 'Ticayle' rather than 'Quayle!'
Bullock (Staffordshire) Wynn (Shropshire) Quayle (Co Dublin) McGreavy (Roscommon)

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Re: The worst Ancestry transcription ever?
« Reply #167 on: Wednesday 02 August 17 17:57 BST (UK) »
Ancestry have Michael Maher in the 1901 Scotland census as a Labourer at
Brassibuslun.

Now I have no idea what this could possibly be, but FindMyPast have it as a perfectly reasonable Labourer at Bridge Building....
Mullingar, Westmeath Ireland: Gilligan/Wall/Meagher/Maher/Gray/O'Hara/Corroon (various spellings)
Bristol: Woodman/James/Derrick
Bristol/Somerset: Saunders/Wilmot
Gloucestershire:Woodman/Mathews/Tandy/Stinchcombe/Marten/Thompson
Wiltshire: Mathews
Carmarthen: Thomas, Lewis
Australia: Mary Lewis, transportee, married Henry Brown - what happened to her?

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Re: The worst Ancestry transcription ever?
« Reply #168 on: Tuesday 08 August 17 21:51 BST (UK) »
The 1841 Census has Jufant Norwamed aged 2 mo (plainly written "Infant Not Named") there are masses of Jufants, including Jufant Female Child and several records for Jufant schools. I presume they may have been the precursor of Montessori Schools. You can see how these mistakes arise though. I have had to spend ages typing this as every time I write Jufant the predictive text autocorrects to Mutant,lol.

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Re: The worst Ancestry transcription ever?
« Reply #169 on: Tuesday 08 August 17 23:09 BST (UK) »
Coal weaver instead of coal heaver or hewer. It may have been mentioned before. Must have been a skilled occupation.
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Re: The worst Ancestry transcription ever?
« Reply #170 on: Wednesday 09 August 17 11:56 BST (UK) »
Not only Ancestry......I have my 3x great grandfather's baptism from the National Archives, he is named as William Magitimate. On the baptism record from Lincs to the Past, he is William, illegitimate. :o
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Paternal Line--An(t)(c)liff(e).Faulkner. Mayfield. Cant. Davison. Caunt. Trigg. Rawding. Buttery. Rayworth. Pepper. Otter. Whitworth. Gray. Calder. Laing.Wink. Wright. Jackson. Taylor.
Maternal Line--Linsey. Spicer. Corns. Judson. Greensmith. Steel. Woodford. Ellis. Wyan. Callis. Warriner. Rawlin. Merrin. Vale. Summerfield. Cartwright.
Husbands-Beckett. Heald. Pilkington. Arnold. Hall. Willows. Dring. Newcomb. Hawley