Hi Sue,
I've also had problems finding people that I know were living in Maldon reg. district in 1861 (as kind people on rootschat had found them for me previously).
On the 1837 site I managed to find the ones I knew were already there by using first name, age and place of birth.....as there are an awful lot where the surname is just transcribed as ......
I found my Pumfreys in Latchingdon by matching up the names and ages of various
......,firstname age bn Latchingdon as I knew what the different siblings should be called.
When I downloaded the image from there I did not that for that page there are no details of parish and etc filled in at the top of the sheet......the orig. enumerator forgot???
And the surname Pumfrey seems quite clear on the image to me...but I guess I knew what I was looking for.
It's a pity that the 1837site doesn't let you search by ref. no's as at the moment at least the part of latchingdon that I wanted is completely invisible to the placename search.
Maldon district does seem to be there though, if badly transcribed....with the surnames the worst I think.
Good luck trying to find them,
Emily
