George Sargent B1889

[trish1120]

No you are not barking up the wrong Tree.

Spellings of surnames were very fluent and the names were often just written down as heard esp. by Census enumerators.
Also people were not all literate and able to check how their surname had been spelt on documents.

Al the Census I posted for the Family is correct, Georges Fathers occp is right etc.

If you look at all the info posted by me and others the name is down as;
Sargeant
Seigant
Sargant
Seargeant

1901 Anc has them as;
George Sargent   33
Julia J Sargent   33
George Sargent   11
William Sargent   9
May Sargent   7
Harry Sargent   6
John Sargent   4
Emily Sargent   2

Bumblebee posted this Census earlier and on the site he used the name has been transcribed as SARGEANT.

So the transcribers have both spelt it differently!

[trish1120]

An example of records for George 1889's Brothers records;

England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005
William T Sargeant***
1911 England Census
William Sarjent***
England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
William T Sargeant****
England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915
William Sargeant****

Various spellings of his surname.

He would have been the 1921 Marriage witness I would say.

1911 Census George 1889's Parents are under SARJENT

[trish1120]

I posted earlier about entries on FreeeREG.

www.freereg.org.uk

[BumbleB]

Apologies - my mistake - surname on original image for 1901 census states "Sargent".

(trish - I'm female  )

[senseideb1973]

Thanks folks ....its all so confusing

[suzard]

and it still happens present day - a friend of mine's mother's maiden name is Buxton -but on her birth reg it is transcribed as Burton!! A lot of the time names were just spellt how the person heard them.
It is confusing

Suz

[trish1120]

In my Tree one name is spelt Leggat/Leggatte/Leggett/Legate etc.

[natsarg]

Hi All

Im trying to confirm my family tree . George Sargent is my great granddad and Im looking to complete his record with his date of death . I know our surname has been transcribed differently or indeed has changed but i cannot find it no matter where i look . hes also listed as george sargent reeves in his military records , can anyone help me
thank you in advance

[wrjones]

Welcome to Rootschat.When and where was he born?

Regards
William Russell Jones.