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If you can't find them try.....
« on: Monday 09 May 05 23:15 BST (UK) »
looking in Iceland! Ancestry has 95 entries for 1891 where birthplace is Iceland. Except that it isn't if you see what I mean. The other years are no better either. No wonder i can't find half my family if the transcriptions are that good :)
Rose (Black Country),Downs (Black Country),Wolloxall (any and all),Bark (Derbyshire),Wright (Derbyshire),Marsden (Derbyshire), Wallace (Black Country)

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Re: If you can't find them try.....
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 10 May 05 08:37 BST (UK) »
Not forgetting to look for Angola instead of Anglesey and Cameroon instead of Carmarthen.  ??? :P
Stuck with:
William Williams of Llanllyfni
John Jones in Llanelli
Evan Evans in Caio
David Davies of Llansanffraid
Evans: Caio/Carms
Jones: CDG, DEN

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Re: If you can't find them try.....
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 10 May 05 09:15 BST (UK) »
Quote from: D ap D on Tuesday 10 May 05 08:37 BST (UK)
Not forgetting to look for Angola instead of Anglesey and Cameroon instead of Carmarthen.  ??? :P

Maybe that's why I can't find my Hugh Williams and Elizabeth Hughes - supposedly born Llanfair PG - on any census.... ::)

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ANT: Nesbit, Potts; CHS: Gosling (Hazel Grove/Lymm), Hinton (Lymm), Johnson (Hazel Grove), Marsland (Hazel Grove), Massey (Daresbury), Sorton (Warmingham); LAN: Jackson, James, Potts (Manchester/Salford); MAY: Caulfield, Griffin (Leveelick); SAL: Goodwin, Johnson (Bridgnorth), Gregory (Wellington); STS: Goodwin, Gregory, Johnson (Wolverhampton); Hallett (Trysull); SOM: Dowding, James, Jones (Bath)

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Re: If you can't find them try.....
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 10 May 05 09:32 BST (UK) »
And I eventually one missing ancestor - born in 'Poland', rather than Poling, a small village in Sussex.
Edmonds/Edmunds - mainly Sussex
DeBoo - London
Green - Suffolk
Parker - Sussex
Kemp - Essex
Farrington - Essex
Boniface - West Sussex

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« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 10 May 05 18:27 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Manchester Rambler on Tuesday 10 May 05 09:15 BST (UK)
Maybe that's why I can't find my Hugh Williams and Elizabeth Hughes - supposedly born Llanfair PG - on any census.... ::)

Imagine the transcriptions of Dwygyfylchi then!
Stuck with:
William Williams of Llanllyfni
John Jones in Llanelli
Evan Evans in Caio
David Davies of Llansanffraid
Evans: Caio/Carms
Jones: CDG, DEN

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Re: If you can't find them try.....
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 10 May 05 19:40 BST (UK) »
What about Ireland? Any rootschatters with experience of that as a mistranscription?
      I am hoping this is so as I am looking for someone born on the Island of Saint Helena, who is nowhere to be found after 1851
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« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 11 May 05 22:24 BST (UK) »
Quote from: GalaxyJane on Tuesday 10 May 05 19:40 BST (UK)
I am looking for someone born on the Island of Saint Helena, who is nowhere to be found after 1851

Have you looked in St. Helen's, Lancs.?  It sounds suitably distant from Saint Helena to be possible!

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Jowett & Broadbent in Leeds.
Perry, Hartshorn/e & Wilkes in Birmingham & Dudley. Walker and Dabill in Sheffield & Notts.
Farrar in Darlington & Leeds.
Kidd & Taylor in Hartlepool & Teesside
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Re: If you can't find them try.....
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 11 May 05 22:43 BST (UK) »
don't forget to check for incomplete trancriptions. Do a check for the first 2 or 3 letters of the surname. I found my GGGrandfather Earley who was transcribed as Ea*
I had been looking for weeks
Whitchurch, Westminster / Buckinghamshire
Cooper,     Westminster
Pollard     Surrey
Earley,  Holborn London
Bruce,  London
Kangeisser  London
Lawlor, Widnes Lancashire
Hagan   Widnes Lancashire

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« Reply #8 on: Wednesday 11 May 05 23:06 BST (UK) »
Hi, Jill,
           I have already caught one St  Helens, Lancs for another member of the family. Understandable, I started off thinking that Saint Helena was the mistranscription.

                I have tried all sorts of combinations with the names, but nothing comes up.
Maybe it will pop into view one day when I am looking for something else!
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