Could someone look at this census image please?

[bev&kev]

1851:
HO107/2410 Folio 422 Page 69

The Longford family:

The 2 girls transcribed as Mary and Marlia (Maria??) Or are their names Lucy and Amelia??

I've stared and stared at this, but the contrast on my computer doesn't work and I can't decide what their names are.

Many thanks.

[Lyn A]

Looking...or trying to!! Ancestry is at a crawl for me at the mo!

[Lyn A]

The 8 yr old is definitely Amelia. Not too sure about the older girl, I see both Mary & Lucy quite easily.

[bev&kev]

So do I, and as I can find neither a suitable Mary OR Lucy (or Amelia) on future censuses, I'm a bit stuck there! How I hate trying to find army families!
Thanks for looking Lyn.

[Rachel Scand]

I can't see a Mary ...

James
Margaret
Lucy ?
James
Harriet
Amelia
William
Sarah

[Lyn A]

So do I, and as I can find neither a suitable Mary OR Lucy (or Amelia) on future censuses, I'm a bit stuck there! How I hate trying to find army families!
Thanks for looking Lyn.

Army families!!! Grrrrrrrr! I hate them, too!!!
I have a doozey & I don't think that I will ever sort them out...Can't find the births, marriages or them on a census!!

[bev&kev]

Snap Lyn!!!

I have (so far!) 10 assorted offspring out of this family, born in 8 different places from Waterford, Ireland to Bengal, India (with one born at sea!)

The trouble is, when I can't find them on a census, there is no way of knowing if they are abroad, or just mistranscribed!

And of course, the sons became soldiers, and the daughters married soldiers!

Moan over!!

Rach, thank you, I'm going for Lucy then.

[Joan of Archives]

Hi Bev

Sorry to confuse you but I think it's Mary, not Lucy, because the "M" s seem to start at the bottom of the letter with a little curl, like the Margaret. The L in Longford hasn't got that, so I don't think it's an "L"

[bev&kev]

Hi Bev

Sorry to confuse you but I think it's Mary, not Lucy, because the "M" s seem to start at the bottom of the letter with a little curl, like the Margaret. The L in Longford hasn't got that, so I don't think it's an "L"

AAAARGH!!! Shuddup Joan, lololol!

[Little Nell]

I think the child under Margaret looks like Mary (compare the two Ms) and I think its Amelia written with a big little a if you see what I mean.

[bev&kev]

Ok, that's 2 for Mary, one for Lucy, and 2 undecided.

I should have put up a poll ...........!!! hee hee

[Joan of Archives]

LOL !

Thanks Nell, that's what I think too !!

Can you find them in 1861 Bev? Where was James snr born, cos I can't read that at all, except for the "West" bit lol !

:D

[bev&kev]

All but Harriet, then married, and William have left home in 61, (mostly) never to be seen again.

Birth places are:

James, West Clandon, Surrey
Margaret, Littleton, Tipperary
Mary/Lucy, Dubin
Harriet, Fermoy, Ireland
James, Mediterranean Sea
Amelia, Waterford, Ireland
William, West Clandon, Surrey
Sarah, Kinsale, Ireland
All of these have been mistranscribed slightly, lolol

[Rachel Scand]

Had another look .... I think it's 'M' and not 'L'

[Joan of Archives]

This must be them in 1861 ?

Harriet is now married:

Class: RG9; Piece: 3778; Folio: 97; Page: 33; GSU roll: 543185.

That enumerator should be shot as his writing is still naff, lol!

[Little Nell]

James junior is in Battersea 1881 RG11 Piece / Folio 0654 / 37 p.20

[Little Nell]

Looked again at image. The a in Mary does look like u but so does the a in James below, so I think it is Mary,

[Joan of Archives]

Harriet married a James Traylen in Durham in 1859 :

Harriet Langford
Year of Registration: 1859
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Sunderland
County: Durham, Tyne and Wear
Volume: 10A
Page: 514

Mistranscribed as Langford

[bev&kev]

Right, that's it! Mary it is! All fairly academic as I don't envisage ever being able to find her again, but I was hoping for a Lucy - Lucy being marginally less common a name than Mary!

Thanks for that Nell, I haven't started on James jnr yet. William is gone in 71, pops up in 81 then vanishes again in 91 and 01.

[Rachel Scand]