And I am in possession of a death certificate of a great great grandfather, father of my great grand mother and who, all his life was a leather worker and, specifically, through many censuses, a saddler. I was startled to read on the death certificate that (aged nearly 80) he was described as a machine operator! His son, a visitor from Belfast, had presumably misread or misunderstood the question as to occupation. That was indeed the son's occupation in 1912. Jean Wood http://www.cheziris.eu/index.htm http://www.cheziris.eu/Duterrau.htm http://www.saintes-fleur-de-sel.fr/index.htm > To: bristol_and_somerset@rootsweb.com > Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 20:19:48 +0000 > From: jojeremiah@dsl.pipex.com > Subject: [B&S] Clerical errors (was Thomas RANSON & Sara SQUIRE ...) > > On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 17:58:40 -0000, Phil Warn <philwarnorp2@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi JJ, > >> It is down to my fave topic "Clerical errors" > > Hi Phil. > > Ah, clerical errors! > > I was present when a relative's death was registered, but it wasn't until > I came home that I noticed that his wife's first name was typed > incorrectly on the death certificate. > > Years ago, I found that the handwritten surname of a witness, on an > ancestor's marriage certificate, was unreadable. If I remember correctly, > it took me about a year to fathom out this surname and when I did some > pieces of my family history puzzle fell immediately into place. > > Josephine > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BRISTOL_AND_SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message