Some more mis-transcribed Allis names from a recent search when compared to the parish register image.
A list of 6 Allice gave two “Allens”, two Allins and one “Allice”
A list of 4 Alles gave three “Allens” and one that couldn’t be read.
Those were fairly standard especially where the handwriting is poor but one new way of mis-transcribing was seen with a list of 12 “Ales”
This yielded one William Ales in London. One entry was for “New”, one “Elles”, and one “Coles”.
The rest were Eales and Sales where, as an example, the name was indexed as Johne Ales which when looking at the parish register was actually John Eales.
Another example: William Henrys Ales which was William Henry Sales.
Under the surname Alice where one or two were real, some that weren’t were: Oliver (the parish register was very clear), Hill, James, Castle and a number where the person had a first name Alice but the first and last names have been reversed.
I wonder how many people I can’t find because of this type of problem. It pays to be creative with searches…
