The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #168986   Message #4083035
Posted By: RTim
11-Dec-20 - 11:09 PM
Thread Name: The old man could only whisper the songs
Subject: RE: The old man could only whisper the songs
One of the problems with tracing people in the UK census system is to ensure you have the name you are searching correct. Barratt or Barrett...it seems that the Census has it one way and the EFDSS has it another.
I know from my own experience when looking for the Blake family in Emery Down in the New Forest...I lost a thread when the census incorrectly changed the name from Blake to Bake..the searches went cold. It was only possible to sort this out by looking at details on several different censuses.
I my own family we had a similar problem with the Census enumerator's handwriting that was so bad that it turned Radford into Ratford when it was digitized for at least one census - it took awhile to work that out...

So in the case of Robert Barrett...we know enough to know that the EFDSS records are - IMHO - wrong.....his name was BARRETT.....Do we need change this?

Tim Radford