Write what you hear ....

[Andrew Tarr]

Just started transcribing marriage records for Liverpool parish 18th century - this one is from 1702.  I can imagine the recorder trying to make sense of a thick Irish accent, which he seems to have written phonetically.  Interestingly it doesn't look like either variety of Ulster accent, more the traditional Irish as imagined by the English 

[ for the uninitiated, I read this as 'Island Magee in the county of Antrim in the kingdom (!) of Ireland'.  It's just across the Irish Sea from Liverpool ]

[goldie61]

"Oyle" = Isle, rather than 'Island"?

I've just come across one, a birth, mother's name was 'Brookhouse' - down as 'Brockas' - of course it is when you say it with a thick Midlands accent!

[JenB]

[ for the uninitiated, I read this as 'Island Magee in the county of Antrim in the kingdom (!) of Ireland'. 

Presumably that's your 'translation' rather than your transcription? 

[Kiltpin]

Of course, Ireland was a Kingdom from 1542 – 1800. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Ireland 

Regards 

Chas

[Andrew Tarr]

Presumably that's your 'translation' rather than your transcription? 

 
I don't need to answer that ...    But I suspect that 300 years ago the place may well have been the 'Isle of Magee', rather than what we find on more recent maps.

[Rosinish]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islandmagee

Annie

[pinefamily]

Oeanter is a Durham census enumerator's interpretation of a Devon accent. Okehampton is the location.
My personal favourite.