Amusing Transcription

[Pennines]

Yesterday I was doing an address search on the 1871 census in Burlington St, Liverpool --- on 'The Genealogist' website.
After inputting the street name you receive a list of the householders at each address. One householder had been transcribed as 'William the Whilley' (without the quotes)!

This wasn't who I was looking for, but I had to have a peek at the census page. I think it should have been 'William Thos Wilby'  ----- but this poor man is going down in posterity as 'William the Whilley'!

[Lisajb]

I found one chap transcribed as "a gentleman of private moans"

[ThrelfallYorky]

- I think I know him!!

[Lisajb]

 

[sami]

 

[Viktoria]

Perhaps a friend of  the Sagger Makers Bottom Knocker--
-- that occupation appeared very famously on a radio programme of many years ago, called if I remember correctly "What`s  my Line?"
As far as I remember it is someone who knocks open the containers for batches of pottery which have been fired. Presumably the base is knocked out.
                                                                           Viktoria.

[Andrew Tarr]

Perhaps a friend of  the Sagger Makers Bottom Knocker--
-- that occupation appeared very famously on a radio programme of many years ago, called if I remember correctly "What`s  my Line?"
As far as I remember it is someone who knocks open the containers for batches of pottery which have been fired. Presumably the base is knocked out.

A saggar is part of the structures which contain the items being fired in the kiln.  I leave it to your imaginations to work out what the bottom-knocking consists of ....

[dobfarm]

I remember reading a baptism abode in the parish that was Bottom Sapper  mis-transcribed to Bottom Slapper 

[Pennines]

Are you sure it was the location, Dobfarm and not the occupation of the father!!