Things i have found that these cause research to hit brick walls .
Name of Smith that seems to miss a census, i have a Smith-Wildish who the whole family dissappear for one census , it took a while to find them because the transcription missed the M and they are listed as 'Sith'
So allways check misspellings.
Alternatives are a little harder to sort if the relation had name they were called by they couild be listed under that depends who gave the information at the time Say for instance Charles , could become Charlie, and in my case Meshach became Micheal for one census.
Birth towns can also be wrongly transcribed and the county wrong , i have raltions from Cuckfield Sussex which appears to be listed as Isle of Wight ?
Missing letters the same as names also happen here.
Hope this helps any new to geneology as i learnt this the hard way, lol.
There is nothing like a Birth.Marriage, Death certificate to give you that helping hand .
My Grans sisters marriage helped me confirm that her husband was a sailor and that his father was also a sailor .Walter James Sharmen ,24 in 1909 according to my family was Coxwain of the Shoreham on Sea Lifeboat , but i can not find any record of this . if any one has a suggestion i have looked at the Lifeboat website with no listing of him.
At the time of his marraige his father Henry Sharmen was deceased also a sailor.Address is given as 128 Wordsworth Street , which i am assuming is the one in Shoreham By Sea.
Peter
Name of Smith that seems to miss a census, i have a Smith-Wildish who the whole family dissappear for one census , it took a while to find them because the transcription missed the M and they are listed as 'Sith'
So allways check misspellings.
Alternatives are a little harder to sort if the relation had name they were called by they couild be listed under that depends who gave the information at the time Say for instance Charles , could become Charlie, and in my case Meshach became Micheal for one census.
Birth towns can also be wrongly transcribed and the county wrong , i have raltions from Cuckfield Sussex which appears to be listed as Isle of Wight ?
Missing letters the same as names also happen here.
Hope this helps any new to geneology as i learnt this the hard way, lol.
There is nothing like a Birth.Marriage, Death certificate to give you that helping hand .
My Grans sisters marriage helped me confirm that her husband was a sailor and that his father was also a sailor .Walter James Sharmen ,24 in 1909 according to my family was Coxwain of the Shoreham on Sea Lifeboat , but i can not find any record of this . if any one has a suggestion i have looked at the Lifeboat website with no listing of him.
At the time of his marraige his father Henry Sharmen was deceased also a sailor.Address is given as 128 Wordsworth Street , which i am assuming is the one in Shoreham By Sea.
Peter
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