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From: "gordon crooks" <>
Subject: Re: [MIDLOTHIAN] Recording Name Variations
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:20:55 -0400
References: <000b01c7ade5$fb6e62e0$647e0252@fairholm>


You know Peter that the Aussie's are very stubborn and persistent people,
there are several Crooks families among them that I know. Sometimes I think
reading early American census is like reading the comic strips. I can also
related the the lady who had
19 pages I have a distant cousin on my mothers side who has every obit from
the begining of time!! She suffers from obitists real bad!!

Gordon
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From: "Peter Fairholm" <>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 2:09 PM
Subject: [MIDLOTHIAN] Recording Name Variations


> Gordon,
> Your posting June 12
>
> I can't claim the credit for finding that TRUM = FAIRHOLM.
> That goes to Ailsa Corlett of Queensland, Australia. She is a very
> diligent researcher, and records every possible detail, which puts me to
> shame. A few years ago she sent me 19 typed pages of her FAIRHOLM sub
> branch, in which the TRUM family was shown from the Scottish 1881Census.
> Her source note was - (1881 Census on CD Rom, FHL Film 0203623 GRO Ref Vol
> 632, Enum Dist 11, Page 35). I can only assume that she went through the
> Census, page by page, until she found a matching family to some previous
> research: James and Annie, the parents, plus 10 children ranging from 4
> months to 17 years. However she did it: she certainly came up trumps !
> ((:>) I believe that the census takers used to take rough notes of the
> verbal information they were given, and subsequently rewrote them on the
> official form. In this case. the resulting transcription perhaps arose
> from what he thought he had heard, and what he later thought he had
> written. I sometimes have that trouble.
>
> I appreciate what you say about the name changes arising at Ellis Island.
> When looking down the credit listings for US films, I often notice
> surnames that appear to be phonetic variants of well established Scottish
> surnames. It is quite possible that many of these are what other people
> have recorded, and not what they themselves or their ancestors have
> selected.
>
> Peter Fairholm
> South Yorkshire, England
>
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