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A lot of entries have that extra "J" initial added, Nell, because the letter J appears after a lot of the names, I think it means "eligible for jury service".
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Oh, thanks for that KiteRunner. Obvious when you know!
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Love from Nell researching Chowns in Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire Brewer, Broad, Eplett & Pope in Cornwall Smoothy & Willsher/Wiltshire in Essex & Surrey Emms, Mealing + variants, Purvey & Williams in Gloucestershire Barnes, Dunt, Gray, Massingham, Saul/Seals/Sales in Norfolk Matthews & Nash in Warwickshire |
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Gosh, the transcriptions are full of errors. I've found several instances of Southwark and Stoke Newington being lumped together as ward/division/constituency, when they are opposite sides of the river.
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Love from Nell researching Chowns in Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire Brewer, Broad, Eplett & Pope in Cornwall Smoothy & Willsher/Wiltshire in Essex & Surrey Emms, Mealing + variants, Purvey & Williams in Gloucestershire Barnes, Dunt, Gray, Massingham, Saul/Seals/Sales in Norfolk Matthews & Nash in Warwickshire |
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They weren't transcribed, Nell, it was done using OCR software. If you look at the total number of records in the database - 159,232,274 - it would have taken an enormous number of transcribers (or a very long time!) to transcribe them by hand. It isn't very accurate but in many cases, the same person will be at the same address for several years and once you have found them in one year you know where to look.
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True, KR, but I have several lots of people at the same addresses for decades and its rare that the address is indexed the same way more than a few times. Often it gives someone else's name or another street nearby as the address, so you have to check every image, which is a bit of a pain.
Mind you, not complaining, its great to have another resource. I've found a chap in ex's tree from 1832 which is fab, and another which gives a description of his house (1st floor, 4 unfurnished rooms) plus the amount of weekly rent - I thought the landlord had a familiar name and sure enough, it's the tenant's father-in-law!
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Love from Nell researching Chowns in Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire Brewer, Broad, Eplett & Pope in Cornwall Smoothy & Willsher/Wiltshire in Essex & Surrey Emms, Mealing + variants, Purvey & Williams in Gloucestershire Barnes, Dunt, Gray, Massingham, Saul/Seals/Sales in Norfolk Matthews & Nash in Warwickshire |
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