Mistranscription of the day

[bibliotaphist]

"Maria" ≠ "Francis".

Diocese of York, Bishop's transcripts. Baptisms in the parish of Rudby-in-Cleveland. 1833. Findmypast. http://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=gbprs%2fyorkshire%2fbap%2f2176095

[LizzieL]

Not sure what you mean here. The original register looks like Francis to me and FindMyPast has transcribed as Francis.
Was it Maria on original parish register and the clerk who did the transcript for the Bishop got it wrong?

[groom]

Looks like Francis to me as well - exactly the same as the father's name. Mind you, of it was a girl it should have been Frances anyway.

[bibliotaphist]

Ah, no. It is Francis (male).

The transcription at FindMyPast originally said "Maria". I submitted a correction request back in October, and they've clearly fixed it now.

[LizzieL]

Oh I see! Good to see FindMyPast are making corrections when they're brought to their attention. I think they've improved a lot recently.

[rich23434565]

I've just found one on An*:

'Elizabeth daughter of Richard Gotheridge' has been indexed as 'Elizabeth Pritchard' with not even a mention of the father in the indexing.

 

This was on the Gloucestershire parish registers that An* are hosting. I don't see the point of even trying to find people using the search function as the transcriptions are incredibly poor. I'm having to go through each parish register page by page in the hope of finding someone. Forenames and surnames are wrong, events are wrong, dates are wrong. It's an absolute mess.