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From: "richard saxby" <>
Subject: Re: Edmund or Edward? Re: [SFK-UK] Going to SRO ? Original 1881 image check please
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 19:10:46 +0100
References: <009301c41a04$846c54e0$3db91644@oemcomputer>

I too have this problem. I have Edmund and Edward Bird who appear to "swap
ages" on a census return. I expect they just misheard the name.
Heather
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ruth L. Dunlap" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 6:20 AM
Subject: Edmund or Edward? Re: [SFK-UK] Going to SRO ? Original 1881 image
check please


> This has happened to me, too. I have an ancestor b. 1816 named Edmund,
and
> the handwritten name - if a little sloppy - looks like Edward. The
> reader/transcriber does the best he/she can in reading it.
> Ruth
> USA
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 4:56 AM
> Subject: [SFK-UK] Going to SRO ? Original 1881 image check please
>
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I have the following from the online version of 1881.
> >
> > PRO Ref RG11 Piece / Folio1874 / 80 Page 15
> > Dwelling 18 White Elm St Ipswich St Clement, Suffolk, England
> >
> > Daniel COATES Head M Male 47 Hakeston, Suffolk, England Foundry Labourer
> (Iron)
> > Ellen COATES Wife M Female 31 Little Bealings, Selkirk, Scotland
Tailoress
> > Daniel COATES Son U Male 13 Dover, Kent, England Scholar
> > Fredrick COATES Son U Male 7 Curgh Camp Kildare, Ireland Scholar
> > Willie COATES Son U Male 2 Gaven West Meath, Ireland
> > Harriet COATES Daur U Female 5 Ipswich
> > Edmund COATES Cousin U Male 21 Playford, Selkirk, Scotland Farm Labourer
> >
> >
> > There is an obvious transcription error in that they have placed
Bealings
> and Playford in Suffolk. But I am curious to know if there is also an
error
> in the name Edmund as I have never come across anyone with this name in
the
> COATES families from Playford,Bealings,Hasketon and Ipswich.
> >
> > So if anyone is going to the SRO and could take a quick peek at this I
> would be grateful.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Nina
> >
>
> ______________________________

This thread:

• [SFK-UK] Going to SRO ? Original 1881 image check please by <>
  • Edmund or Edward? Re: [SFK-UK] Going to SRO ? Original 1881 image check please by "Ruth L. Dunlap" <>

    • Re: Edmund or Edward? Re: [SFK-UK] Going to SRO ? Original 1881 image check please by "richard saxby" <>

    • Re: Edmund or Edward? Re: [SFK-UK] Going to SRO ? Original 1881 image check please by "Nina Isted" <>
  • [SFK-UK] Going to SRO ? Original 1881 image check please] by <>