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« on: Friday 23 June 06 12:05 BST (UK) »
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?

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« Reply #1 on: Friday 23 June 06 12:34 BST (UK) »
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.

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« Reply #2 on: Friday 23 June 06 12:40 BST (UK) »
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

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« Reply #3 on: Friday 23 June 06 13:04 BST (UK) »
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.

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Re: Male or Female
« Reply #4 on: Friday 23 June 06 16:45 BST (UK) »
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

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« Reply #5 on: Friday 23 June 06 18:51 BST (UK) »
I have a 'Warrick' down as a daughter and then in the next census the name has changed to 'Harriet' daughter  ::) ::)
Behling---- London
Bridges---- London
Copperwheat----Bedfordshire---Norfolk
Denton----Bedfordshire
Edwards----Wales
Evans----N.Wales
Farrow----Norfolk
Hughes----N.Wales
Jones----Wales---Bedfordshire
Lambert----London
Larmouth/uth----London
Ostler----Norfolk
Sherwood----Bedfordshire
Silver----Bedfordshire---Suffolk
Smart----Leicestershire---Middx
Teagle----Buckinghamshire---Wales
Totterdell----Hampshire---London---Stoke-On-Trent
Woods----London

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« Reply #6 on: Friday 23 June 06 20:20 BST (UK) »

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

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« Reply #7 on: Friday 23 June 06 21:15 BST (UK) »
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?
Behling---- London
Bridges---- London
Copperwheat----Bedfordshire---Norfolk
Denton----Bedfordshire
Edwards----Wales
Evans----N.Wales
Farrow----Norfolk
Hughes----N.Wales
Jones----Wales---Bedfordshire
Lambert----London
Larmouth/uth----London
Ostler----Norfolk
Sherwood----Bedfordshire
Silver----Bedfordshire---Suffolk
Smart----Leicestershire---Middx
Teagle----Buckinghamshire---Wales
Totterdell----Hampshire---London---Stoke-On-Trent
Woods----London

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« Reply #8 on: Friday 23 June 06 21:42 BST (UK) »
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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