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Hi All
It's difficult enough unearthing facts about our ancestors but I have found quite a few boys listed as girls and vice versa - in baptism and census records. I wonder if you have had the same experience?
Cheers
downside
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Hi Downside
The only one I had was a baby listed as a 2 week old girl on the 1841 census, but actually born on the day of the census according to birth cert, which turned out to be a boy, that threw me a bit.
Anthony
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This confusion seems to be related to male and female verions of names I suppose and sound alikes. I have 3 mix-ups in my tree:
Ellis -> Alice
Jesse (as in Jessie James).
Frances -> Francis
downside
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When I first started searching the OPRs on Scotlandspeople was suprised to see the number of children of undefined gender who were recorded!
Soon learned that often the sex wasn't recorded in the registers hence the large number of U rather than M/F in the database.
Gordon
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I produced a list from the IGI of the children of ........
Someone called Elizabeth was down as a boy. I suspect someone pressed the wrong key when they were entering it onto the computer
Sylviaann
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I have a 'Warrick' down as a daughter and then in the next census the name has changed to 'Harriet' daughter ::) ::)
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One of my families has a daughter Jane born 1858 she is there in the 1861 census, however on looking for her birth on Free BMD the only child I could find to fit was a Male - I strongly suspect that this is the Jane I am looking for as this particular family did not give any of their children a name when they registered their births :(
Did they think they'd had son or has the registrar made a mistake? :o
Suey
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Just a thought Suey,--as well as my Warrick/ Harriet mix-up i also had a Jane/James hiccup. Could yours be a Jane/James maybe?
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I couldn't find my great grandad Percy Wood for ages on the 1901 census - turns out he was transcribed as a girl ::) ::)
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Just a thought Suey,--as well as my Warrick/ Harriet mix-up i also had a Jane/James hiccup. Could yours be a Jane/James maybe?
I wondered that too at first Polydor, however on the image she is down as daughter and age is in the female column ???
Suey
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I have another weird name in my tree. A young couple had 3 children and the mother was pregnant with the 4th child and her husband died in a boating accident. The mother decided to name the unborn child in honour of her dearly departed husband who was called Cleatus Joseph Flint.
In the days before ultra scans she could not have forseen the child would be a girl so the girl was born Cleatus Winifred Flint. Obviously the girl did not want to be called Cleatus so she swapped the first and middle names around in later life.
I bet it managed to confuse a few people though!!!
downside
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It has happened quite recently! I've just had a short holiday in Longreach, Queensland, and while there, located a great-uncle and great-aunt in the cemetery. She was buried in 1984, and her gender is recorded as "M" in Council records, and the girl in the office said, this can't be your great-aunt, this one is a man! Whether it was the profession of "Retired grazier" that confused them, I don't know!
MarieC