"Eight Mouths Fortus Cleary" - the most ridiculous transcription error ever?

[kateblogs]

Maybe he was eating curry at the time 

Willow x

Funnily enough, he did like a curry, so maybe he was 

Loving the idea of a boob shop manager!

[Rishile]

I have also been searching the RAF Records on FindMyPast and found a Glass Cattle Merchant. 

Glass Cattle??

Looking at the original image it clearly says Glass Bottle Merchant.

Rishile

[carlineric]

Not sure if the transcriber had a sense of humour or if they had no understanding of English when they referred to a person in the Census from the northernmost islands in the most uncomplimentary way as coming from Sh*tland.

Eric

[suey]

There are an awful lot (thousands) of mistranscribed people with the surname TUCK and TUCKER !!!

The old fashioned way of writing a T seems to have caught people out as it looks like an F.

I discovered that when looking up Tucker for a friend of mine.

  Great scot!  maybe that's where my Tuckey's are - off to have a look 

[Treetotal]

   hilarious
Carol

[Josephine]

I think "boob shop manager" should win some sort of prize. Oh no....