Genealogy Chat

I know we've done the name thing many times, but can't resist this one:

Name: Hopeful Harry Hanks
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Single
Age: 24
Birth Date: 1866
Marriage Date: 12 Jul 1890
Marriage Place: St.Thomas Parish, Birmingham, Warwick, England
Father: John Hanks
Spouse: Elizabeth Goodwin

:-D :-D :-D

:-D

I wonder if he changed his name after he got married... :-S

Hopeless Evans

England and Wales, Birth Registration Index, 1837-1920

birth registration: 1880 Stoke On Trent, Staffordshire, England

Useless Coffee

Son

United States Census, 1940

birth: 1938 Kentucky
residence: 1940 Magisterial District 5, Jackson, Kentucky, United States

father: Alger Coffee

Poor little Hopeless Evans died the same quarter, hence the name I suppose.
Jan

Looks like he kept that name!

Name: Hopeful H Hanks
Birth Date: abt 1866
Date of Registration: Sep 1939
Age at Death: 73
Registration district: Birmingham
Inferred County: Warwickshire
Volume: 6d
Page: 187

I have a friend from Malawi called Costly ....he says his mother had a difficult birth so he was physically costly to her ! !
I wonder if Hopeless was a sickly baby named shortly after birth + what were the hopes for Hopeful ....? great names .

London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 about Stinky Pencil
Name: Stinky Pencil
Year: ****
County or Borough: Kensington and Chelsea
Ward or Division/Constituency: Kensington North

I took the year out as is fairly recent!

I wish that were true!! Sadly he is Stanley Pestell.
Who is doing the transcribing these days, one wonders? :-S

Obviously someone with a sense of humour Jan :-D

Or maybe an Indian call centre...........

The electoral rolls on Ancestry are usually done by OCR.

Does that stand for Overseas Call Resourses Ken :-D

I bet this girl was pleased to be able to change her name


Name:
Charles Taylor

Estimated birth year:
abt 1850

Age:
30

Spouse:
Mary Titts XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Spouse Age:
22

Record Type:
Marriage

Event Date:
10 Oct 1880

Parish:
St Clement, Notting Hill

Borough:
Kensington and Chelsea

Father Name:
Charles Taylor

Spouse Father:
George Titts

Register Type:
Parish Register

No Flip :-D

It's Optical Character Recognition, i.e. it's done by a computer. So it transcribes what it sees regardless of smudges and badly printed characters.

Rose Titt

England and Wales Census, 1911

birth: Cardiff, Glamorganshire
residence: 1911 Cardiff, Cardiff, Glamorganshire, Wales

years ago when I worked at our local psychiatric hospital there was a nurse called Michael Hunt - one of the senior nurses was trying to find him when he walked past the office window - without thinking I called out "Mike **** has just gone past the window" which got the response "Well I've heard of throwing your voice, but that's just ridiculous" :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

Nice one, Ann!

Just found this one - parents with expectations, perhaps?

HOLDEN Doctor Herbert Darwen Blackburn HOLDEN D/131/10