Genealogy Chat

I think the Jno/Tho theory is probably right too, maybe she was expecting him home for tea or something?

Thanks Kate ...... (at least theres someone on here with intelligence ....... lolol!) Bev x

Why thanks Horatia .....! Having sat at this computer for around 8 hours a day for the past 3 days, whilst eating my body weight in chocolate, and pondering over the intricacies, quirks and little creases of Ancestry, I have formed quite a few opinions of enumerators and transcribers ..... most of them unrepeatable ....... but gratitude???? Not even close!!! lol!! Bev x

Kate, That's brilliant! Well done! Cheers, Horatia

Don't forget, Thomas was often written down as Tho, and John as Jno, so is it possible that they wrote Jno on the form but the enumerator misread it as Tho? Kate.

Bev, But I think you should be GLAD the enumerator threw you a curved ball! ;-). Look at the challenge he gave you, not to mention the hair you lost in scratching your head and pulling it out! (Tee-Hee). There's nothing like a knotty census puzzle! :-) Cheers, Horatia

Makes up for the people not enumerated at all! Merry

Thank you girls, all the right answers so far!!! It HAS to be the same man or this particular branch, (which has given me no end of grief with their funny name and annoying habit of disappearing off to sea whenever they felt like it) is going to be lopped off the tree! I have a few cases of people being enumerated twice, but they always managed to keep the same name .....! lol Bev x

MAYBE this family were actually capable of filling in their own census form. We know how easily names can be mistranscribed....maybe the enumerator couldn't read the handwriting, or he did what my huby does all the time.......if he is writing and you speak to hiim, he writes what you said instead of what he meant to write!! (proves he listens to me sometimes!) I think it's the same man. Merry

Bev, Maybe she said it correctly but the enumerator had a senior moment?! Cheers, Horatia (hopping up and down on my peg leg)!

You'd have thought she'd have remembered her husband's name though Horatia .........!! Bev x

Hi Bev, I haven't looked at the image but this does sound as if he has been enumerated twice. Last night I had a Frank Cracknell who was Frank Cracknell throughout the census years, but in 1901 he suddenly becomes John Cracknell which doesn't resemble the name Frank in the slightest!!!! So I would guess that your chap could have had his first name entered incorrectly also. It isn't unknown for people to be counted twice. Perhaps the wife didn't want anyone to know she was in the house without a man to protect her (my imagination is running riot - excuse me)!!! Cheers, Horatia Typing with one arm and one eye! ;-) I expect someone, probaby Merry, will come up with a better explanation than an old sea dog like me!

Oh LOL Bev.....Horatia finds it tricky typing with only one arm! Merry

Being a seafaring sort Horatia, you should be able to sort this in no time!!! lol Bev x

Ooooh! C'mon Bev, Merry and I have our underwear in an uproar anticipating your post! ;-) Cheers, Horatia (not Bev again)!

Ok!! I have a John Henry Morales (or Moralee - the names are irritatingly interchangeable) born 1862 Boston, Lincs, married to Jane born Hornsey. They are on 1891 census with eldest child Alfreda (thats the one transcribed as Alofeeda!!) Ref 12/2574 folio 113 page 11 But on 1901 census John H. is on a boat floating around Kings Lynn Reg 13/1889 folio 134 While his family are with a THOMAS H. Morales, also (coincidentally!!??) born 1862 Boston. Ref 13/3046 folio 77 page 17 I'm not sure I can figure this out ..... the originals are perfectly clear (even though Alfreda is in 1901 transcribed as Alphane!) My gut feeling is that the same man has been enumerated twice, (Thomas is a mariner) but how 'John' became 'Thomas' I have no idea. (And no wifey Jane has not shacked up with John's brother - he didn't have a brother called Thomas). Has anyone any ideas???

Flippin' heck Horatia, I thought you were Bev! Merry

Sounds interesting! My appetite is whetted. Cheers, Horatia

Ooh 'eck! Merry

Hang on a sec, this is a bit complicated.