Haugham, Sussex

[Jill on the A272]

No, it's not Haugham!

It's Slaugham, Sussex and one of the most mistranscribed villages I've come across in census entries

...and it's pronounced "Slaffham".

[Little Nell]

The sort of error that shouldn't have occurred because they should have had a gazetteer to check places. So frustrating and unnecessary. My gt grandmother's birthplace was mangled as something quite bizarre when it clearly said Cambridge, so it wasn't even an obscure village.

[Jill on the A272]

I've also corrected some for Middx which have been transcribed as Mexico. (I like to have something to do while the World Cup's on)

[dicole]

I once counted up - 20 different interpretations of the name of Martock, Somerset, in the 1881 census alone - not just transcribers, but enumerators also. And it has been listed as Martock Som - Martock Somalia, sometimes.

Di