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    Another transciption laugh!!

    Just searching on the 1901 census (you all know where!!;)) when I came across this entry.....

    George Gibbs, RG13; Piece: 266; Folio: 66; Page: 10.

    In the relationship column the enumerator has written a lot..it has been transcribed as this.....
    There Kersone Are Romeless & Found In The Cocalily Of King Wm Gorce City !!!!

    Had to check it out and it actually says.....
    These persons are homeless and found in the locality of King Wm Street, City.

    PMSL!!! :D :D :D
    Last edited by Lyn A; 29-11-08, 09:04.
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  • #2
    sounds like the typing was done while drinking a glass of water..........

    a gottle of geer......a gottle of geer:D
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/50125734@N06/

    Joseph Goulson 1701-1780
    My sledging hammer lies declined, my bellows too have lost their wind
    My fire's extinct, my forge decay'd, and in the dust my vice is laid

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Glen in Tinsel Knickers View Post
      sounds like the typing was done while drinking a glass of water..........

      a gottle of geer......a gottle of geer:D
      I reckon!!

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      • #4
        Cocalily is a nice smutty-sounding word isn't it!

        I'm Romeless as well as I imagine lots of us are.
        ~ with love from Little Nell~
        Chowns, Dunt, Emms, Mealing, Purvey & Smoothy

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        • #5
          As mentioned elsewhere, a Scottish man in 1871 was a "Coliecta Cale 28 Kaily Boy" according to Ancestry. I don't feel like shelling out for SP to find what he really did.
          Uncle John - Passed away March 2020

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          • #6
            Not a mistranscripion, but I was looking through a film of bishops transcripts yesterday, and came across a chap named 'Richard Pritchard'. His parents must have been a right pair of pilchards, to name him Richard!

            Bee.
            Bee~~~fuddled.

            Searching for BANKS, MILLER, MOULTON from Lancs and Cheshire; COX from Staffordshire and Birmingham;             COX, HALL, LAMBDEN, WYNN, from Hants and Berks; SYMES (my mystery g'father!) from anywhere near Bournemouth.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Bee View Post
              Not a mistranscripion, but I was looking through a film of bishops transcripts yesterday, and came across a chap named 'Richard Pritchard'. His parents must have been a right pair of pilchards, to name him Richard!

              Bee.
              I know a bloke called Richard Upritchard, and he pronounces it as Richard UP-Richard
              http://www.flickr.com/photos/50125734@N06/

              Joseph Goulson 1701-1780
              My sledging hammer lies declined, my bellows too have lost their wind
              My fire's extinct, my forge decay'd, and in the dust my vice is laid

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Glen in Tinsel Knickers View Post
                I know a bloke called Richard Upritchard, and he pronounces it as Richard UP-Richard
                I knew a couple named Uprichard. They pronounced it You-Pritchard, which I believe is the Scottish pronunciation.

                Carol Smillie could just as easily have spelt her name Smellie, which is also pronounced Smiley.
                Uncle John - Passed away March 2020

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                • #9
                  Sounds like the Welsh 'Ap-Richard' - son of Richard.

                  Bee.
                  Bee~~~fuddled.

                  Searching for BANKS, MILLER, MOULTON from Lancs and Cheshire; COX from Staffordshire and Birmingham;                   COX, HALL, LAMBDEN, WYNN, from Hants and Berks; SYMES (my mystery g'father!) from anywhere near Bournemouth.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Bee View Post
                    Sounds like the Welsh 'Ap-Richard' - son of Richard.

                    Bee.
                    I was thinking that.

                    Of course, that highlights the fact that Richard Pritchard would be much the same as Johnnie Johnson - which people don't tend to disparage.

                    Christine
                    Researching: BENNETT (Leics/Birmingham-ish) - incl. Leonard BENNETT in Detroit & Florida ; WARR/WOR, STRATFORD & GARDNER/GARNAR (Oxon); CHRISTMAS, RUSSELL, PAFOOT/PAFFORD (Hants); BIGWOOD, HAYLER/HAILOR (Sussex); LANCASTER (Beds, Berks, Wilts) - plus - COCKS (Spitalfields, Liverpool, Plymouth); RUSE/ROWSE, TREMEER, WADLIN(G)/WADLETON (Devonport, E Cornwall); GOULD (S Devon); CHAPMAN, HALL/HOLE, HORN (N Devon); BARRON, SCANTLEBURY (Mevagissey)...

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                    • #11
                      But Johnnie Johnson was a name like Chalky White, not so far as I know his real name.
                      Uncle John - Passed away March 2020

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Uncle John View Post
                        But Johnnie Johnson was a name like Chalky White, not so far as I know his real name.
                        I know what you mean because my uncle (Robert) and grandfather (Herbert) both got called Chris, I believe, on account of their surname.

                        It may well be true of The Johnnie Johnson, but I think there are others with real names such as John Johnson, Richard Richardson, William Williamson, Henry Harrison, Stephen Stevenson, David Davidson... whose names would not be considered particularly odd. This is even more true of William Williams, John Johns, Peter Peters... which I am led to believe are much the same sort of surname.

                        I think Richard Pritchard sounds odd to the English (as distinct from Welsh) ear because it's such a close rhyme - not even a final "s" to disrupt the effect. Do any of our Welsh members have the same reaction?

                        Christine
                        Researching: BENNETT (Leics/Birmingham-ish) - incl. Leonard BENNETT in Detroit & Florida ; WARR/WOR, STRATFORD & GARDNER/GARNAR (Oxon); CHRISTMAS, RUSSELL, PAFOOT/PAFFORD (Hants); BIGWOOD, HAYLER/HAILOR (Sussex); LANCASTER (Beds, Berks, Wilts) - plus - COCKS (Spitalfields, Liverpool, Plymouth); RUSE/ROWSE, TREMEER, WADLIN(G)/WADLETON (Devonport, E Cornwall); GOULD (S Devon); CHAPMAN, HALL/HOLE, HORN (N Devon); BARRON, SCANTLEBURY (Mevagissey)...

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