Ancestry versus FMP GRRRRRRRRRR

[Guest]

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec/?htx=view&r=5538&dbid=8767&iid=WARRG9_2140_2143-0179&fn=Christian&ln=Austin&st=r&ssrc=pt_t6737403_p-1235602855_g32768&pid=20972749

correct me if I'm wrong but I read Christian Austins occupation as Land & Houses
Yet on FMP it says Law Stationer ???????????? thought FMP was the best site for Census records ???????? humph

[Cloggie]

It looks like Land & Houses to me too.

[Guest]

how on earth can anybody see law Stationer??

[Cloggie]

It's pretty far-fetched isn't it? Creative transcribing?

[Cloggie]

Our of curiosity, what's the occupation below it. Something Warehouseman, but can't make out the first word.

[Guest]

it says something Warehouseman ? doesn't it ???

[Cloggie]

Yes, it's the something part i can't make out.

[Mike Fisher]

Lace Warehouse man is what I think as I have a number of census entries for my lace warehouseman relatives but there appears to be a strange "letter after lace

[Guest]

thanks Mike thats looks right

[Cloggie]

I think you're right, Mike. It does look like Lace something Warehouseman.

[jangar55]

many errors are because non-English speakers do much of the initial transcribing. They have no real working knowledge of the old script flourishes/occupations etc . For many many transcriptions, one site we all know actually let pass the martial state of 'windower' , where anybody familiar with english would know it had to be 'widower'.

[Guest]

I have a few windowers too lol