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HELP WITH TRANSCRIPTION PLEASE!!!
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Eunice | Report | 6 Feb 2014 23:40 |
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I am looking at a distant branch of my tree and I have come across the Waterworth family in Leigh Lancashire. On the 1901 census dad James and mum Elizabeth have a whole fleet of kids with amazing names but some are incorrect i.e. Nerse is actually Verse, Pertaslin has a variety of changes especially during WW1 as does Bazhylm. I am looking at a child who is transcribed as VIGRIA WATERWORTH, but I am not sure ……. it could be something else and I cannot find a Vigria on the BMD site. Can anyone please help work out what the name is???? |
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Mike * | Report | 6 Feb 2014 23:52 |
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Some dates would be useful please |
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Eunice | Report | 6 Feb 2014 23:55 |
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Mike, all I have is she was born c 1900? at Leigh, so it is stated on the 1901 census. Sorry, I have nothing else to go on :-( |
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Mike * | Report | 7 Feb 2014 00:00 |
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Mike * | Report | 7 Feb 2014 00:02 |
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Could this be it in 1899 ? |
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KathleenBell | Report | 7 Feb 2014 00:02 |
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On the 1901 census the child who is transcribed as Vigria who is 1 year old is on the 1911 census as Dinah (the image is definitely written as Dinah). |
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Mike * | Report | 7 Feb 2014 00:05 |
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KathleenBell | Report | 7 Feb 2014 00:08 |
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This looks like the birth of the child transcribed as Bazhylmn:- |
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Eunice | Report | 7 Feb 2014 00:08 |
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oh, thank you - how confusing is all of that??!!! Some of their names are biblical - like Napthali -but I could never imagine why they would call one something that sounded like 'earache - us' !! I had seen the name Denira, and must confess I did wonder. I presume McDonald/McDonnell is the mother's maiden name? I had not got so far as to look at her. |
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KathleenBell | Report | 7 Feb 2014 00:15 |
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This looks like the parent's marriage:- |
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Mike * | Report | 7 Feb 2014 00:20 |
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The 1911 census says married 29 years. |
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KathleenBell | Report | 7 Feb 2014 00:20 |
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The 1911 census says that James and Elizabeth have had 12 children - 9 living and 3 have died. |
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KathleenBell | Report | 7 Feb 2014 00:21 |
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SNAP! Mike, lol. |
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Eunice | Report | 7 Feb 2014 00:28 |
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my goodness you two are on the ball!! Thank you. I have actually just found that marriage - and she came from Ireland originally. How sad to lose 3 children. But to raise 9 …….. I would have dementia very early on!! |
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KathleenBell | Report | 7 Feb 2014 00:31 |
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On the 1911 census it says Elizabeth was from Glasgow - not Ireland although the 1901 census says Ireland. However the 1911 census was written by James himself and not the enumerator so you would think he would get it right. |
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Eunice | Report | 7 Feb 2014 00:33 |
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and now I have checked the 1911 census and she now climbs to be from Scotland??!! Yet earlier census and marriage say Ireland!!! How to confuse us!!! |
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Eunice | Report | 7 Feb 2014 00:34 |
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lol snap again Kath!!!! I am glad they are a distant branch - they are too confusing!!! |
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Eunice | Report | 7 Feb 2014 00:35 |
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its Glasgow, Lanarkshire I think it is written??!! |
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Mike * | Report | 7 Feb 2014 00:35 |
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Looks like James had siblings with Biblical names too |
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Mike * | Report | 7 Feb 2014 00:38 |
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1891 |
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