Sunday, January 25, 2009

Uridge Misspellings in Censuses

Judith Batt noticed that there was a lot of misspellings both by the enumerators, and in the transcripts of the censuses. This is probably because Uridge is such a rare name, transcribers invariably have trouble working out what it says.

These include:

Elridge,Herrage,Hudge,Midge,Ubrich,Uredge,Uridze,
Usidge,Voidgo,Voridge,Vridge,Whitlge,Widge,Wrich,
Wridge,Wridye

So if you don't find your Uridge, Euridge ancestors in the censuses, do try these alternatives.

Many thanks to Judith for compiling these. A list will be compiled in the Variants section.