How many names does this family have?
One family that I am researching (family of a great-great-grandmother) has proved to be quite difficult to find on census returns because of the variety of mistranscriptions. The first time I came...
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Hi Janet,Well, I've heard of mistranscription but this one certainly takes the biscuit !What was her married name when she appeared in the 1891 Census ? Have you a reference to her Marriage or a year...
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It certainly isn't an easy one....can I claim the record for the most different versions of a name here? The best one is in one household there are two different transcriptions of the surname. I've...
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Have you tried searching the 1881 with just her christian name, place of birth and birth year - to make it easy - just do an exact year and then go up or down a year and do another search. I was...
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janet have just sent you a message - think I might have found her transcribed as Canane on 1881 - I just did a seach for ann with Gisburn Mags
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Thanks for that.............. I had tried searching that way when I was searching for Maurice Froude from West Kington (found him as Maurice Virude) but thought that Ann was perhaps too popular a name...
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Well done Mags, I've tried your suggestion of christian name only before.Carol
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This sounds as though the problem is really about being able to read the enumerator's writing. Even if he actually wrote CAMM it would well look like CANNU or any of the other variants. Remember too...
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