The worst Ancestry transcription ever?

[Scrumper]

Rees Dicks became "Bus Dicken" in 1901.  Found him in the same house he was in in 1891.

[majm]

Ancestry has uploaded some electoral rolls for Western Australia. These of course are NOT handwritten documents, but printed at the Government Printers.   And so I share the following MIS-transcription from the 1934 Roll for Kalgoorlie, Subdivision of Mount Magnet, pg 11.
 
Delay Bmaabelb Mery Nerill   (JM notes this is meant to be the elector’s name)
Mdrfle, tie Yalgee  (JM notes this is meant to be the elector’s home address)
Bee (JM notes this is meant to be the elector’s occupation)

I clearly read this particular entry on the roll as :

610 Nevill, Daisy Elisabeth Mary, Melville, via Yalgee, home duties, F   

(To be eligible to be enrolled on that roll in 1934, you needed to be resident, a British Subject, and aged 21 years or more …. , ) 

Daisy Elizabeth’s death is indexed at WA BDM for the year 1960.  She was aged 69.   
http://www.bdm.dotag.wa.gov.au/_apps/pioneersindex/default.aspx

To BEE or not to BEE, to DELAY or not to DELAY .... whether tis better to be Bmaabelb or to be Elisabeth or worse to be Mery and not Mary....
    


JM

[rachelharvey]

Found an old guy, well he wasn't always old but in my mind he is. he doesn't get married and stays as a lodger for over 30 years at the same place, on all of the census's he gives his place of birth as Londonderry Worcestershire, at first I didn't question it and just thought there is a small place there called Londonderry I have never heard of, but then I looked for it nothing. then in his final years he is in workhouse it is only then corrected crossed out to (Londonderry Ireland) but this was on the original . I thought this was quite sad really as he probably joked about coming form Londonderry Worcester.

[Indiana.59]

I had the surname West thranscribed as Resh, took ages to find that one. But the worst by far was
Mary Hunter, that had been transcribed as Stumbles , took years to unravel it, we had to pull the original documents and then we could see it wasn't Stumbles at all ,but Hunter, haven't got a clue how they could have got that so wrong.

Whiskey and bad lighting 

[angelfish58]

I found my Snowball family in 1841 transcribed, not unreasonably considering the writing,  as Turnbull on FindMyPast and as Smeaban on Ancestry. It all adds to the fun.

[Lisajb]

I've just found George Louis Mead transcribed as a "gentleman of private moans"...

Wonder what he was like to live with? 

[trystan]

Lisa, at least he kept his moans private

[Treetotal]

I've just found George Louis Mead transcribed as a "gentleman of private moans"...

Wonder what he was like to live with? 

 Hilarious......maybe he had gagging placed on him 
Carol

[BumbleB]

Another good one:

"Courmecial Isauller Big & Poulter Iron Prind Wood" the occupation of Stephen Geoye Warren - his wife is Mirnie Isabel 

Nearly missed the son's name Albert Herrery 


Added:  FindMyPast got only one word wrong!