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From: Liz <>
Subject: Re: 1901 census
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 12:32:43 +0000
References: <a0s1ef$5oj$1@paris.btinternet.com>


Eve McLaughlin wrote:
>
>
> >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

Thanks Eve. If I ever get back onto the site again I'll check it out.

I am inclined to think the whole family was missed, tho'. The names
mentioned above were Channing Plantin DOWSING and Channing Fairhead
DOWSING, father and teenage son, each with mother's maiden name as
middle name. So the permutations may be complex! However a search for
daughters in the same household with nice simple names like Olive
Madeline and Gladys Nora has so far produced no result.

That was on Jan 1st .... haven't been able to get back in since .... not
even the front page now.

Liz (Greenwich UK)

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