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Roger

Roger Report 5 Oct 2006 22:41

Please be aware UK records have sometimes incorrectly put Puxley as: Pusley Puseley Luxley There may of course be other incorrect spellings!? The list seems endless and complicates the tracing process somewhat. Pugsley (adams family not or maybe?!), etc Cheers. Roger Puxley

Devon Dweller

Devon Dweller Report 5 Oct 2006 22:43

There are millions of them. They wrote what they thought they heard. It keeps us on our toes though!

Unknown

Unknown Report 5 Oct 2006 22:44

Not unique. I'm fairly sure that there can be very few surnames that have retained the same spellings and have never been misrecorded, misread or mistranscribed. I have for example Maling/Mealing/Mealins/Melin as well as Chouns, Chounes, Chowndes, Chowns and Chown, just to choose two of the rarer surnames in my tree. More common names aren't exempt - I also have Grey/Gray and Mathews/Matthews (and on one occasion Maththews!)

Kate

Kate Report 5 Oct 2006 23:10

The worst one I have is the Cottrell family in my OH's tree. Cotterill, Cottrill, Cotrill, Cotterell, Coterell... the list goes on and on! Kate.

Unknown

Unknown Report 5 Oct 2006 23:23

I've got Emmons (marriage cert) Hammond (1841 census - someone else kindly found them for me!) Emmens (1851) Emmins (child) An entirely different lot were Emmes, Hems and Emms. Purvy/Purvey mistranscribed as Curvey on two separate censuses. Bonnum/Bonham Garvey/Garvie Hawkins/Hocking Rudram/Rudrum Gillingwater/Gilling Water Simons/Simmons Robins/Robbins Utting/Utton Willsher/Wiltshire You are not alone!!!