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Jones - census mistranscription
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Alison | Report | 28 Jul 2005 21:28 |
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Having had little success in tracing my Jones ancestors, I noticed how much the handwritten J looked like an S on many census returns. Having searched under Sones, Soans and Soanes, I have now matched families who on other earlier, and later, censuses appeared as Jones. |
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Unknown | Report | 28 Jul 2005 21:36 |
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Alison I've also noticed S and T being mistaken - one of my Smoothy great-great-aunts turned up as Timothy. Its a nuisance that they wrote such florid capitals as if the first bit of the name is in a totally different part of the alphabet it takes some doing to find it. nell |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 29 Jul 2005 09:31 |
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Thank you for this message. I'm off to search the 1861 census for Charlotte JONES b.1846, Southampton- yet again. Gwyn (hopeful) |
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