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You couldn't make it up, could you?
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Michael | Report | 28 May 2006 02:52 |
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Protheroe causes surprising numbers of problems for some transcribers - I've come across it as Proth, Brothers or Brott. |
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Unknown | Report | 28 May 2006 00:19 |
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Woolley Shelomish? Perhaps the birth informant was drunk?! |
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KathleenBell | Report | 27 May 2006 23:46 |
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I can't imagine that it's ever transcribed the same way twice!!!! Kath. x |
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Merry | Report | 27 May 2006 23:45 |
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LOL!! Births Sep 1841 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Woolley Shelomish Shepton Mallet 10 404 Merry |
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Unknown | Report | 27 May 2006 23:35 |
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That's a bit more like it. Steelsmith Woolley sounds like a character in a Thomas Hardy novel and definitely male. nell |
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KathleenBell | Report | 27 May 2006 23:30 |
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You certainly couldn't Nell, but I've had a look at the image and I'm not convinced that's the first name!! She's transcribed as Shelameth on the 1861. Kath. x |
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Unknown | Report | 27 May 2006 23:25 |
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Steelsmith Woolley abt 1842 Croscombe, Somerset, England Daughter |
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Unknown | Report | 27 May 2006 23:25 |
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Looking for Stephen Hollay without success in 1851, so tried Ste* and I found |
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