The worst Ancestry transcription ever?

[jaybelnz]

I think I may have posted this one in another thread re oddest names we have found, but this one I found interesting.

It was was the Christian name of Banfree, in a Canadian census, when I was looking for her parents. I thought what a strange name, but on looking at the image the name was Winifred!

So much for all the trees on Ancestry that have her as Banfree, obviously hadn't looked at the source document!

[coombs]

Somerset records on Anc just released have a George Coombs wed a Sexcy Williams in 1816 in Weare lol.

Scrap that, just viewed the original, the original does seem to say "Sexcy".

[Andrew Tarr]

Somerset records on Anc just released have a George Coombs wed a Sexcy Williams in 1816 in Weare

There is a very respectable school somewhere in the West Country (I forget where - just checked, it's in Bruton) named Sexey's.  I do wonder what the pupils make of it, and how much backchat they suffer.

[..claire..]

I've had a look at that marriage record it certainly looks like Sexcy to me, the witness looks to be called 'Sexa Williams' unless I'm mistaken.

 

[coombs]

Some parishes in census transcriptions have been mistranscribed such as 1841 for Suffolk village of Hacheston put down as Hackeston. And Fakenham Magna in Suffolk is in Thetford district, which is mainly in Norfolk, seems some districts did cover more than one county, and the 1851 census says Fakenham, Norfolk, but it is Fakenham in north Suffolk. There is the north Norfolk town of Fakenham, 20 miles north of Thetford.

[cristeen]

My favourite is the 1911 for my Richard William Baxter Gardner, he is transcribed as Reta Haidee Bailee Gadwa. Admittedly Baxter may not be an expected name, and the handwriting isn't great, but his signature is much clearer and could have given clues to the transcriber if they'd looked! Took me a LONG time to find him

[roderickpaulin]

Alimor transcribed where it reads Ellinor

[horselydown86]

The unchallenged champion Worst Ancestry Transcription Ever can be found in the collection All London, England, Freedom of the City Admission Papers, 1681-1925.

Search for Rock Doffethor.

[andrewalston]

The unchallenged champion Worst Ancestry Transcription Ever can be found in the collection All London, England, Freedom of the City Admission Papers, 1681-1925.

Search for Rock Doffethor.

You win the whole internet with that one!