[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

And then there is that trick our ancestors played on us where they add another name.
So you will be looking for John and it will be down as John Thomas.
I found this with one of my relatives.
So how do I know that he is the same person...well on the census a decade later he is there...with this additional name at the same address, with the same parents and another two siblings and grandma.
I think their houses had elastic sides.

Margsret, Sumat else I forgot to mention, Calendar Change, when the new year was changed fron Easter to January, if you don't make the correction at the right time, then you can finish up with children dead before there born an Viky Verky, becomes a bit awkward at times, as for wrong spellings etc, a lot also had to do with god botherers wi cloth ears, unable to understand Lanky, an wrote wod he thowt he heard, then you've got the one who forgot to write in his book, nissed as a pewt ont thalter wine, shouts tu sexton who did we plant over there last week. Jim Joinson, thank you and then write John Jimson. Welcome to the fold.