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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: 1861 Census - help with reading an occupation
« on: Sunday 18 October 20 22:09 BST (UK) »
Wonderful - thanks everyone . Looking at that cleaned up version I see independent Gentleman too
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My first thought was Crondall. If the writer was taking down details by dictation (rather than copying from another source), he might have misheard if he wasn't familiar with the placename himself. Easy to hear a C at the start of a word as a G. And some people do pronounce the 'o' in names as a 'u' sound. Cuventry and Cumpton instead of Coventry and Compton, for example.