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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: 1901 census
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 02:19:44 +0000
References: <a0s1ef$5oj$1@paris.btinternet.com>



>Also one family with somewhat unusual names (two men called Channing as
>first name) who were definitely in the country but cannot be found at
>least under their proper surname :-(
I suggest you try them with Channing as the surname. The transcribers
were instructed to reverse the names if the enumerator had written
surname first, and maybe they did in this case. It was a format often
found in areas with a lot of Jewish/Italian/German/French families (like
the East End, or Soho) and it was ofetn quite difficult to decide how
much shopuld have been switched - Levy Solomon, Agosto Tomasso, Wolf
Israel etc

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Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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