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Old 06-09-20, 19:02
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The vicar got it right though, for Florence at least, so I suspect it is transcription errors. Be interesting to find out!

I know all about that bit of paper, one of my ancestors carefully carried it round and used itfor every family registration event in Scotland for about 80 years. Pity the mother 's surname does not exist anywhere on earth.

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Old 06-09-20, 19:13
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lol OC - Makes me wonder if someone helpfully wrote their surname down for them, in nice copperplate, so that when they visited the register office it wouldn't be difficult to get their name across if their spoken English perhaps wasn't great? They dutifully kept the piece of paper somewhere safe to be used for each registration. Pity it said Davies on it!!
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The vicar got it right though, for Florence at least, so I suspect it is transcription errors. Be interesting to find out!

I know all about that bit of paper, one of my ancestors carefully carried it round and used itfor every family registration event in Scotland for about 80 years. Pity the mother 's surname does not exist anywhere on earth.

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Ha ha. Interesting scenarios!
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Old 06-09-20, 19:16
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OC - perhaps it was the same person wth the flowery handwriting dashing around the country dishing out bits of paper to the unsuspecting?
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OC - perhaps it was the same person wth the flowery handwriting dashing around the country dishing out bits of paper to the unsuspecting?
I attended a talk once when it was said that there were "ghetto scribes" who charged coppers for writing down names, dates, addresses etc for the illiterate or for emigrant residents.
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Makes sense...
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I attended a talk once when it was said that there were "ghetto scribes" who charged coppers for writing down names, dates, addresses etc for the illiterate or for emigrant residents.
I'm back. Sorry, been entertaining (at a distance) for Labor Day here.

That's very interesting and quite plausible in this case. Thanks for that, Janet.
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