General Chat

Are we saying that simpleton is the general feeling?

The more I look the more I dont think its an S or by the same hand. Look at the S in Sussex and Schoolboy - its not the same.

Hmm that doesn't look like a p to me when compared to the one in "popini" Doesn't look like the other S's either. *ponders*

could it be scholar
Love Jackie

Ok off the track here what about Cripple spelt with 1 p?

The more I look at it, the more it looks like England.

It's not an S if you compare it to others, like his sister Susannah.

If you look above, the entry right above was born in India, so England might have been added to clarify things.

Too many letters after the L, maddie?

That letter has me confused, trying to find another that matches it in shape at the tail.

Last letter could be a d, based off "cumberland"

Me too I think It could be C looking at some of the other words but the end is likey to be ton look at Brighton - could it be an extension of the place of birth for example Brighton, Sussex - Clifton?

Yep, I'm certain it's England, added after Brighton Sussex. It's there to clarify that he was born in England and not India as above.

It's not meant to be in the last column, jsut that there's no room to add it in the where born column.

TW, when I first thought that I thought I was going nuts, but I think you're spot on.

I couldn't imagine that they would clarify what was wrong with him when they didn't the others.

Oh dear, thats not very interesting! Thankyou everyone for your help, i am really greatful! Whilst we ar ehere does anyone know what the N.W.P before india on the above line stands for? I know he was born in india and his father was an officer, is it anything connected to that?

Kelly x

North West Province??

Could it be North West Provence?

Doh! Now I can see England after TW figured it out lol.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allahabad

From there: "When these north western areas were made into a new Presidency called the "North Western Province of Agra", with its capital at Agra. Allahabad remained an important part of this state."

(Practised transcriber BTW)

*bows*

TW, when I first thought that I thought I was going nuts, but I think you're spot on.

I couldn't imagine that they would clarify what was wrong with him when they didn't the others.

Summer scribe, when you say this do you mean that the others all had something wrong with them? Well at least the ones with the ticks?

I thought somebody had just put the ticks on when they had been transcribing it or something? Because there are lots of marks and crosses on it i thought it was part of this?

**Eeek** You can see i am not very experienced!

Nah the ticks are there to show that particular entry had been recorded.

Sometimes lines are put across the end of each household, and sometimes asterisks, depends who was transferring the original copies onto the central record.

Kelly, sometimes they do tick as they count etc, I never looked too closely but I did notice that the three children had ticks next to them. Sometimes rather than indicating the condition they just ticked it, infact that's the case more times than I've none them to clarify (as with the 'idiot' that I mentioned before). Whether they didn't have the time, didn't like to ask or just went with what was easiest, I've no idea.