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Offline joboy

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Ancestry Bloopers!
« on: Monday 07 November 05 09:45 GMT (UK) »
If you are looking for a surname that starts with 'T' then substitute 'F' instead.
There are oodles of FHORNS and FHORPS and FHOMLINSONS out there.
Just take a look ............. I found many of mine that I could not find elsewhere.
I suppose the reverse would apply if you were looking for names like FINCH or FOSTER  ........... they might show up as TINCH and TOSTER.
Try it ........... good fun.
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Harding(e) Australia
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Re: ANCESTRY BLOOPERS
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 20 August 06 18:45 BST (UK) »
Another one to watch out for is 'Y' being transcribed as 'G'. I have had several instances of my Yardleys being listed as Gardleys.

Happy hunting!
YARDLEY/PATTYSON - W. Staffs, LAWRENCE - Bucks., OSBORN(E) - Bucks., HITCHIN(G)S/IZOD - Worcs., NEWMAN - Gloucs., MORGAN - Ireland, McCREAV(E)Y - Meath/Westmeath, WHYTE/BAILLIE - Kinross

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Re: ANCESTRY BLOOPERS
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 27 August 06 15:24 BST (UK) »
Another one to lookout for is  S being transcribed as L.
I found a few of my Sockett family  as Lockett.

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Sockett in Shropshire, Montgomeryshire, Herefordshire, Monmouthshire, Glamorgan and probably the rest of the UK
Corbet/t in Shropshire, Norfolk, Worcestershire
Gambold in South West Wales, USA, Australia
Baylis/s in Gloucestershire, South Wales
Richards in Breconshire
Manthorpe in Shropshire, Norfolk, Cheshire, Suffolk

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Re: Ancestry Bloopers!
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 06 September 06 22:46 BST (UK) »
You're right, - I'm looking for Smith's and I found three Lmiths!!! also a kpsull for Upsall, but my best today - my husband's family Cook under Cock... say no more!
Durham: Chester-le-Street and Dunston - Whitfield, and Charlton. Winlaton: Smith, Veitch Gateshead: Smith, Robson, Reed, Scott :
N Yorkshire: Smith  Megginson Jamieson
West Sussex: Bignor/ aldingbourne Chandler: White: Frost, Tanner
Hampshire: Chandler

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Re: Ancestry Bloopers!
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 27 September 06 13:32 BST (UK) »
Barlows often turn up as Barton's, Dare's as Dan's & Dane's but the best (or worst) i've seen was IRVING transcribed into JEOING.

Bit of a shocker that.
CHURCH & LUSHER (Peterborough) BARLOW, THOMPSON, PARKINSON (Hunts/Cambs)
GIBBONS, STEWART, WILLIAMS (Liverpool) DARE (Liverpool & Jersey)

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Re: Ancestry Bloopers!
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 27 September 06 14:03 BST (UK) »
I have found GILBYs turing up as GIBBYs and GILLYs. The ultimate (for me) was the forename Araisbida (listed as a sibling of my g-g grandmother. I puzzled over that one for ages, then I realised it was her brother, Archibald.
GILBY - Essex, Warwickshire and Cambridgeshire
OWENS - Yorkshire (West Riding) and Ireland
PUGH - Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Cheshire, and Nottinghamshire
RYLANDS - Liverpool and Ireland

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Re: Ancestry Bloopers!
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 27 September 06 14:12 BST (UK) »

Or from 1871 (london)

"Wetamoo" Pulham 21y. Alternatively known as William.

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Re: Ancestry Bloopers!
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 27 September 06 14:46 BST (UK) »
Also in London (Lambeth) in 1871 is Mrs Schrumes Kendrick ( better known to her family as Johanna !)
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Re: Ancestry Bloopers!
« Reply #8 on: Friday 29 September 06 07:06 BST (UK) »
This one in 1851 -  Southwark Surrey -
Cruolum Cumm - her name was Caroline Cannon.
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